At a Loss for Landlines?
Looking across the telephone landscape, landlines are seen in less and less households every year, written off in the same vein as CD players, 4-function calculators and other now obsolete technologies before them. But relative to the guy carrying a Walkman just to be ironic, landlines still could have a common function in the modern world, as cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, what-have-yous, still can’t quite perfect their craft, making landlines not only still relevant, but actually advantageous in certain aspects. Why keep a separate landline? If the following criteria are important to you, it is at least worth some consideration.
- Reliability Not only in terms of the reliability of your device but in terms of maintaining a reliable image to your peers. Landlines are locked in to your home, thus while this inhibits mobility, it makes them significantly easier to keep track of and keep working properly. A wild night out on the town won’t cost you your landline, neither will most water hazards, small-time thieves and other well documented cell phone foils. Also your landline is not subject to battery life, making you suddenly inaccessible after only a few blinking ticks.
- Reception Some houses simply don’t cater well to the coverage of certain service providers. Whether a tower is near your area or reaches some basement apartments may be out of your control, but the decision to maintain working communication with the outside world is still possible via a landline. Also, landline owners aren’t subject to dropped calls on their end of the conversation, as even the best cell phone coverage is vulnerable to a hiccup or two from time to time.
- Cost Cell phone plans are much more expensive than landline plans, not only in basic pricing but also the additional add-on features that make cell phones so popular. Even what are now considered rudimentary cell phone operations such as texting and internet capability can cost a lot of money depending on the intensity of their usage, without even accounting for the multitude of services available on today’s smart phones.
All in all, cell phones are becoming a more and more widely integrated facet of everyday life, but life without a cell phone is still possible. Perhaps the best option is combining a cheap landline service with a cell phone plan in order to ensure phone availability regardless of the situation. Though less and less people will inevitably rely on landlines, to see them completely fade into the history books with the next passing generation would be a tragic occurrence fur a still viable technology.
Filed by www.discussphone.com at November 1st, 2010 under