Comments on: Bye-Bye Landlines http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/01/18/bye-bye-landlines/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/01/18/bye-bye-landlines/comment-page-1/#comment-13350 Sean P Aune Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:49:38 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=927#comment-13350 Shari - On the article front, speaking as a businessman, I am far more interested in the potential impact on lost telephone workers jobs than a handful of pollers. The polling companies will simply find a new way to do their job, it could be regional targeting, direct mailings, online, whatever form it may take, they have the potential to fix their problem. The guys installing phone lines in your house, working on the ground wires and so on will have fine a whole new profession if this trend continues, which it will. As for cell service in the USA, it is far, far cheaper to have a cell phone than a landline with the majority of programs out there. Even with my BlackBerry, which is a fairly expensive program, if I got reliable signal strength in my house, I would switch over to it full time in a heartbeat. On the person making the call to a cell phone being charged front, nope, we don't have that, at least not on any plan I've ever looked at. Shari –
On the article front, speaking as a businessman, I am far more interested in the potential impact on lost telephone workers jobs than a handful of pollers. The polling companies will simply find a new way to do their job, it could be regional targeting, direct mailings, online, whatever form it may take, they have the potential to fix their problem. The guys installing phone lines in your house, working on the ground wires and so on will have fine a whole new profession if this trend continues, which it will.

As for cell service in the USA, it is far, far cheaper to have a cell phone than a landline with the majority of programs out there. Even with my BlackBerry, which is a fairly expensive program, if I got reliable signal strength in my house, I would switch over to it full time in a heartbeat.

On the person making the call to a cell phone being charged front, nope, we don’t have that, at least not on any plan I’ve ever looked at.

]]> By: Shari http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/01/18/bye-bye-landlines/comment-page-1/#comment-13302 Shari Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:58:10 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=927#comment-13302 All the research I did on land lines vs. cell phones in the U.S. indicated that using a cell phone in the long run is more expensive than using a land line. That is, all calls are more expensive from cell phones. Is it really cheaper to have a cell phone than a land line or is it simply cheaper up front? As for the Business Week article, remember that they are gearing their information toward businesses and therefore approaching the issue as it may concern businesses who may be footing the bill for telephone research. The issue directly affects them in this fashion. Personally, I think a lot of people around me set up their cell phone service in a very selfish manner. That is, they set it up so that the people who call them foot a bigger bill to compensate for their cheap cell phone service. I don't know if it works that way in the U.S. or not but it's pretty lame to make your friends and family pay more for your convenience. All the research I did on land lines vs. cell phones in the U.S. indicated that using a cell phone in the long run is more expensive than using a land line. That is, all calls are more expensive from cell phones. Is it really cheaper to have a cell phone than a land line or is it simply cheaper up front?

As for the Business Week article, remember that they are gearing their information toward businesses and therefore approaching the issue as it may concern businesses who may be footing the bill for telephone research. The issue directly affects them in this fashion.

Personally, I think a lot of people around me set up their cell phone service in a very selfish manner. That is, they set it up so that the people who call them foot a bigger bill to compensate for their cheap cell phone service. I don’t know if it works that way in the U.S. or not but it’s pretty lame to make your friends and family pay more for your convenience.

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