Unplugging the telephone
I got my new AT&T phone book this week, and for the first time in my life, I’m not in there. My family this year joined the growing number of Americans who have opted to forego a landline telephone. We’re now totally on cell phones.
In making the switch, we moved our former residential number over to one of our cell phones. That has helped with many of the calls we would otherwise have missed, but it has left us receiving the odd telemarketing call now and again. But overall the experiment has been a success.
But I do sort of miss seeing my name in the phone book.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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I remember thinking it was so odd to go from a landline to a cell phone. I even had a landline as part of a package from Cox, but I realized something about it right before I canceled it — the only calls I ever got on the landline were telemarketers. I don’t have the same problem with my cell.
I guess the real challenge of the landline-free world that’s coming is how we organize people. Telephone numbers have been a great way to find people you’ve lost. And I know it will be doubly hard on journalists who can’t use phonebooks to easily contact sources.