The Phone Poll

[Marla_Singer]

Check and mate. I'll just shut up now.

As a matter of fact, it's only recently that I discovered everything was still paid separately in the US (and in many other countries actually).

For once that France has a market in which the situation is more at the advantage of the consumer, I can only enjoy!

 

[Marla_Singer]

Huh. Old technology ftw in some ways.

Household landlines don't serve any real purpose anymore, I only use mine for the free calls to Australia and the UK (where my siblings live). But even here, wifi calls and other "iPhone facetime" are vastly taking the lead.

The only future for landlines I can see is office use (and even there, we can wonder in the long run).

 

[madviking]

Galaxy Nexus

 

[bhsup]

As a matter of fact, it's only recently that I discovered everything was still paid separately in the US (and in many other countries actually).

Yes and no. If you live in an area where one company provides it all, you can get that. My dad, for example, has all of his services unified with AT&T and it all comes on one bill. I, on the other hand, have CenturyLink for DSL/land line, DirecTV for my satellite tv, and Sprint for my cell phone. CenturyLink and DirecTV keep saying they are going to allow unified billing (but it would still be two separate companies), but I signed up for that almost a year ago and still get two separate bills. Each time I check on it, they're still in the process of "integrating" their systems...

 

[Farm Boy]

Household landlines don't serve any real purpose anymore, I only use mine for the free calls to Australia and the UK (where my siblings live). But even here, wifi calls and other "iPhone facetime" are vastly taking the lead.

The only future for landlines I can see is office use (and even there, we can wonder in the long run).

Well, I would figure all my telephone needs are a real purpose. I would also figure my internet is a real purpose. It isn't as fast as a cable provider, but it streams HD quality content more than adequately and it is incredibly stable - I don't torrent very often and I don't download multiple games from Steam at the same time so the functional difference is minute even at cable's best. I understand that most places totally without already laid infrastructure aren't chomping at the bit to put it in, but where it already exists it's cost effective and good. I loathe using the interface on Apple's most recent products and their clones. Why on earth would I want to pay double to triple the cost of ownership and service to use something I dislike?

 

[Zelig]

I use a Windows Phone; please make fun of me.

I have a Windows Phone too.

As a matter of fact, it's only recently that I discovered everything was still paid separately in the US (and in many other countries actually).

Bundled services are bad for keeping a competitive marketplace where anyone other than big players are able to compete. It's especially obnoxious in Canada where 3 companies share ownership of most of the cellphone market, most of the internet market, most of the tv market, most of the tv stations and news broadcasters, a bunch of radio stations and newspapers, electronics stores that sell phones and accessories, several stadiums and several professional sports teams.

Wiki list of assets owned by Rogers Communications

 

[del62]

Have a landlime and pay a tenner a month for my mobile, if I want to go on line on my mobile it is an extra 27p per day it is used, very rarley go over text and minutes.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have a Windows Phone too.



Bundled services are bad for keeping a competitive marketplace where anyone other than big players are able to compete. It's especially obnoxious in Canada where 3 companies share ownership of most of the cellphone market, most of the internet market, most of the tv market, most of the tv stations and news broadcasters, a bunch of radio stations and newspapers, electronics stores that sell phones and accessories, several stadiums and several professional sports teams.

Wiki list of assets owned by Rogers Communications

Man that sucks. We have laws that prevent that sort of thing. I'm surprised Canada doesn't.

 

[Antilogic]

I use a Samsung flip phone that I've had for about 5 years, if I remember correctly. I use text messaging, but not as much as my brother does. No landline in my apartment.

 

[Core Imposter]

How could you possibly leave out the most significant type of phone from this poll?

I do NOT have an Obama phone.

But, alas, I did not build it. Somebody else built that.

 

[Cutlass]

Having a landline also helps when you lose your cell phone....

 

[Core Imposter]

Having a landline also helps when you lose your cell phone....

Proof?

 

[bhsup]

Proof?

You plug in a cordless unit into your landline and dial your cell phone as you walk around your house and property and dig through your car until you hear your cell ringing. tada, land line just helped you when you lost your cell phone.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Or you could have your SO call it from his/her cell phone.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

I have an Obama Phone.

I have a ELITEofKingWarman8 phone.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I have an Obama Phone.

Oh dear, welfare queens now braking in OT.

 

[Zelig]

You plug in a cordless unit into your landline and dial your cell phone as you walk around your house and property and dig through your car until you hear your cell ringing. tada, land line just helped you when you lost your cell phone.

I can make my cellphone ring from my computer until I tell it to stop.

 

[cardgame]

I can make my cellphone ring from my computer until I tell it to stop.

Likewise. The magic of smartphones