Time to unplug landlines?

Wireless. Take away someone’s wireless capabilities and you instill panic and fear into their ever rapidly beating hearts. Today, very few of us do anything in an average day that doesn’t involve at least a few wireless operations and the first thing you think of when this comes to mind is your wireless extension of ourselves, otherwise known as your cell phone. Most if not all of us would be lost without it, it contains EVERYTHING we need to function and communicate in this world.
It's true though we can make calls, send texts, browse the Internet, and for some, even send emails, It’s not necessarily the specific functions of the wireless that makes it so convenient and today’s MUST HAVE. No, it is the portability.

The very thought that we can do all of these things, including talk on the phone of all things, anywhere, any time. That is why the cell phone was invented. What was normally a gadget for emergency use only has become an everyday essential in today’s world. So the question begs then, what is going to happen to the land line? Are you the type that gabs on your home phone endlessly when you get home from work, or do you find that you spend more time on your cell, even when you are at home, than you do on a "wired" telephone line. There is no question that today’s business still needs the land line, without it the corporate world as we know it would crumble.

Or would it? Let’s revisit that in a few years and see if that’s the case, but when it comes to personal use, the land line is all but obsolete.

A recent study by Harris Interactive and the CTIA Wireless organization found that 40% of teenagers, today’s biggest talk time users, don’t even want a landline anymore. Gone are the arguments about getting your own phone in your room, instead they are replaced with arguments about whether a cell is even necessary. Most parents today would say yes, they want communication access to their kids, ALL the time which is why it is not surprising when these same researchers found that 84% of teens today have their own mobile device, with 15% of those users having their own smartphones even.

Times have changed, More and more people are losing their ‘home number’ because it is simply not a practical use of funds in today’s economy. The cell phone, once a luxury, has replaced the land line as a necessity, and the land line well….why force another monthly bill on yourself if you don’t need to? Do you need land lines anymore? Do you even have one?