Until more is known about the possible carcinogenic effects of cell phone use, curb your kids’ cell phone habits by encouraging texting or using a landline instead.
So, when I recently returned home to Burlington, Vermont, I got rid of my cell phone and traded in an old, rusty bike for a regular landline telephone that is connected to the wall and everything.
What's wrong with the landline?
The decline in landline use, which has been under way for several years, has picked up speed in recent months.
Mobile and landline phone services were lost, and for more than 48 hours it was only possible to make contact on satellite phones, although many of these had also been lost.
The card is only for landline phones.
According to his calculations, both firms' landline businesses generate more than 50% of revenues, and an even higher share of costs.
We tend to ignore the fact that our cellular telephone doesn’t work like a landline phone; instead, it is actually a radio transceiver that might swap connections between a half-dozen different cellular base antennas in the course of a two-minute call. Knowing this doesn’t help us to understand how to use the phone.
The immediate problem is the rapid growth in the number of people who have only a mobile phone, and are thus excluded from surveys conducted by landline.
And the gap between wireless and landline users is narrowing fast.
If I don't answer the landline because I'm putting the kids to bed, fair enough.
Interestedin talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call SherryTurkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science andtechnology.
These days, the average office worker receives more than 200 messages a day via snail mail, e-mail, express mail, cell phone, landline, wireless Web, bicycle messenger, singing telegram, you name it.
At the time, he was paying his landline carrier (Verizon) five cents a minute for local calls, 11 cents for cross-country calls and an average of 16 cents a minute for international calls.
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