Cell Phone Only,Good For Everyone?

Is that similar to what I mentioned in post 10?

 

I only have one cell between two people
We can't afford a land-line or a second cell.
Cell phone shit is really expensive here.

 

I asked you a question about post number ten and this thread,,, are you selling this product shown on that video?

Seems like it's not about your cousin at all but about your idea instead when I read your posts leading up to the video and even this last post.

I don't know if I would want my home phone hooked through my cell unless I have unlimited calling minutes (which I do only for Canada and US but other calls would cost me tons) it technically means everyone picking up the phone at home is using my cell phone even when I have it on the road with me, and is the cell blocked for use if someone at home was on it? Are callers getting a busy tone when they phone me while I am out with my cell? Your sales pitch video doesn't tell much about all the pros and cons that could happen.
Is this just a question coming from the mind or a sales pitch?
As for how to have both options, my house phone is at bare minimum options for 20 bucks and I have two numbers people can call but the home phone transfers right to my cell so I don't miss any calls while out, also someone at home can call out anytime for personal use or emergencies without interfering with my cell or billing any air time minutes to it doing local calls even tho I do have unlimited minutes and long distance at the moment.
Because of business I do need the home phone or I wouldn't even bother with landline or your plan. Cell is definitely the way to go now, you will see landline and your idea shoot to the wayside soon.

 

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No I'm not selling that product.

 

Yeah when I was a kid my friends and family plan was one phone shared with 5 people.

 

Same here, lots of bruises fighting over it too, hahahahaha.

 

This is about the only thing I am envious of the US about.

Our 'disposable' phones start at $50....our contracts, fees and plans are one of the most expensive in the world. It's idiotic.

 

I was spoiled and had my own "teenline" that I had to share with my brother. Our phone was upstairs so when it would ring we would have to get upstairs before they hung up and my dad wouldn't let us run up the stairs (just to be a dick). That was before caller ID so we got really good at skipping steps.

 

That's funny, yer dad was a jerk like mine in a similar way, what I love about him,,,,
He used to try to answer all calls so he could say stuff like, (using a false name here) "Smith's morgue, you stab em, we slab em, who would you like to speak to?" and "Smith's bakery, which crumb would you like to speak to?" or "Not here anymore, she ran away with all our money and jewelry last night", it was hard to keep boyfriends at 15 and 16 with him around. He was such a dink back then.

 

Yeah I remember that was a big thing to get "your own phone". Did you pay for it or was it contingent on grades and what not?

 

My parents paid for it. I was a good kid so I never had an issue with the privilege being taken away. I was grounded one time in my whole life and they did take my phone out of my room for that week.

I was waiting for my friend Tina to call one time. My friend Shawna called and my dad said "is this Tina?" She said "I'm not Tina" he started calling her "not Tina" after that. The next call was my friend Jenny. He said "Tina?" She said "I'm not Tina" he said "no, not Tina already called. You are not not Tina". To this day he stills calls Jenny "not not" and it's been almost 25 years. Haha.

 

Something that never came as a question for us for some reason. I took a call and was gone out the door in a flash. Even if we had a teen line my brother woulda screwed with that too so it was more about getting asked to come out and play when younger and for dates when older. We were all mostly about hanging out with our friends then staying home which now kids don't do as much anymore, seems if they are out they are still talking on the phone.
I remember some kids saying they had a teen line at home and I couldn't see why. It would have meant my parents could expect us to be home more because of it I would have thought.
My friend when I as about 14 had one and she was always being grounded, without phone,,, seemed kind of oxymoron to me. I couldn't see many of our friends that she could call anyway unless it was near bedtime since most of us were out hanging like teens did back then. The water hole was popular back then, everybody hung there like a gang in a way.

 

actually sounds fun - I would have traded for this in a second, (love your signature)


I have a cell for most calls and wandering around, don't use many apps or anything other than Maps in order to find a way to get places on my bicycle so I use very little data even though I have unlimited.

Also a landline but it was cheap - $100 for 5 years and I can call all over the US

 

I was a good kid, so they say now but an adventurous one so I did get grounded a good few times. Was better then friends I had, getting beaten tho.
I really didn't mind it so bad unless it happened when there was something big coming up I would miss. I was out of there at 17 anyway and in the military, the first thing they did in boot camp was ground us all for the first two weeks,,, it was called confined to barracks which meant we would have a hell of a lot of freedom and boozing at the clubs once that period was over, it gave us lots of time to get to know each other and we did lots of smoking hard on cigars in the bathrooms for a high,,, wow, yer stomach felt like puking after holding in a few good long cigar tokes, and all you got was a head spin kind of feeling, hahahaha.

 

One little issue that would keep me from going with just a cell phone is reception. I hate talking to people who are on cell phones sometimes because it's hard to follow what they're saying because of the slight static you can often get with them. I get no static with my landline.

 

This might depend on where you live I guess. More towers are always going up and most major companies share tower use with each other,,, Eg,,, Bell who sells in Ontario also sells in the west so they share Telus's western towers and visa versa so they are both basically Canada wide and I believe they have deals with other companies as well. Reception will only get better as time goes and the freedom to take it to other countries is good too now that CRTC has capped the cost slam some experienced in the past. Trust me it's the way to go. Why have a phone at home "in case" one day you get stupid and leave it to be stolen? Best put them extra bucks away to purchase a new phone if you lost yours.
There is only one area I lose reception between BC and Alberta, it's up where there is less cell use so it's really not a problem, then I get my reception back,,, still worth it to have my mobile on the road and if I didn't need the landline for my business I sure wouldn't have it. You really do need to see the future coming at you because someday you won't have a choice anyway. It does seem as if you are pushing something you believe in or are selling for some reason and it's not the way the trend is going,,, wait trend? It's past being a trend,,, it's a need now to be mobile. Landline and companies selling dual hook up services will go into history books I am sure. Everyone I know has a cell and most of them have no landline, it wasn't needed anymore and got disconnected.

 

And to this,,, ever since landline went from the old line stuff they had many years ago to that fiber optics lines thing they did I have had static, crossed lines, hearing other people talking and dropped lines, technology is a wonderful thing but it's never going to be perfect. I also hear a lot of static when talking to religious relatives on their landline phones,,,

Gonna add this, if Netflix offered local news somehow and some real time programing for peoples favorite shows as they are available on cable, well cable would already be in the past too... Go Netflix, go!

 

problem with switching entirely to Netflix is that as the internet companies gain further and further control of everything (and hate you NOT subscribing also to theri cable) they are limiting access speed to certain places AND limiting how much data you can use. Welcome to the wonderful capitalist paradise.

 

I also get crap reception so until they get a few more towers up in my area i will be stuck with a landline if i want to actually know i will be able to have a full uninterupted conversation.

Random, if you are unhappy with your cable providers speed there are non tv internet providers that gain nothing by being spiteful towards your choice or lack of choice in tv packages.

 

I am in the US, either your internet is a monoply and this are has the one mentioned OR I get to subscribe to a sattelite service which is even MORE expensive and has worse limits