On 11/27/12 11:21 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
I think that land lines are a generational thing. As age goes down, the fraction of cellphone-only users goes up dramatically.
It's also a geographical thing. Copper is expensive. For developing countries, wireless communications is where you start.
I've been following the U.N. Telecom Agency Reports for the last few years and I've watched the number of mobile phone subscriptions grow from a reported 4 billion to 6 billion.
The land line is just as foreign as the modem. However, I still love it when Hollywood uses the modem connect sounds when someone uses "The Internet". I played that sound to my kid (21 years old) not to long ago and asked what the sound was? After a bit of thinking she said, "The Internet". My kid never knew dial-up, probably because I always had a LAN at home, and hidden from sight and sound was a dial-on-demand home brew router that later morphed into ISDN, then DSL, then Cable.
Ah... but I still do love that sound. So Hollywood, keep doing it.