But what if the company bundles it with cable or internet service (or all three of them) and the actual cost of having a phone is minimal. They may be betting on an occasional long distance call.
@Kim -- conference calling could be challenging if phones are running diverse protocols, or even if from different vendors.
Conference calling aside, I need to get in gear and join the 35.8% without a landline. Another benefit to switching from residential landline to mobile would be a reduced number of robocalls and telemarketer calls.
Ariella -- I guess I will soon be joining the ranks of the 35.8% without landlines in their home (haven't had a business landline since the last century). The one thing I will miss is the landline's conference feature, the ability to pick up a phone call and then get others on the same call with me.
That's amazing. Must have been 90 percent or more once had landlines? Bad news for phone/cable companies, with people migrating away from traditional cable TV packages too.
@Kim According to this http://bgr.com/2012/12/21/wireless-only-adoption-rate-35-8-percent-262622/We're very close to hitting the post-landline era. The Center for Disease Control has released some preliminary results from its National Health Interview Survey for 2012 and has found that 35.8% of American households no longer have any sort of landline telephone in their houses and rely exclusively upon wireless. What's more, just under 16% of American households said they "received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones despite also having a landline telephone," meaning that more than half of all American households either have no landline service at all or have a landline service but rely almost exclusively on wireless.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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