With cheap cell phone rates, people may be tempted to drop the traditional telephone. Jim Lynch, writing in ExtremeTech Opinions, tried it, but found he still needed a landline phone.
The experience of others of doing without their landline phones are included in the comments after the article. Tip from Smart Mobs.
Next year the issue won’t be landline or cell. It will be landline or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Telecos and ISPs offering VoIP now. The Charlotte Business Journal reports on a bank in a small town outside Charlotte, N.C., that switched to VoIP.