I cant stand the ring of a telephone. I dont even have my mobile phone on vibrate anymore, I have it set to Off. If someone needs to contact me, they know how to, and I will respond to them as soon as is pertinent.
To me, Land-line Telephones (especially without Caller ID) are essentially the same thing as an someone else’s alarm clock in the next room waking me up at 5:00 AM when I would rather be sleeping.
I’m not even sure of the statistics on it, but I imagine the infrastructure for business landlines isn’t quite as necessary as we want to think. I’ve heard of people that work for call centers from home using an IP Telephony service (such as Skype), or even abroad from a forwarded number from an IP telephony services to a mobile phone. Examples are on google, I’m sure. I simply don’t think land-line telephones will last much longer.
Perhaps it won’t completely go away, but will become an odd service like the telegram (which Western Union actually still provided until 2 years ago, on January 27, 2006; so it took roughly 145 years to kill that technology).
I wonder how long before this technology becomes obsolete and land-line telephones will be an odd relic of the past.
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That’s insightful. I have wondered about this myself. Heck, even the phone companies don’t do land lines any more, it’s all digital. It only converts over to analog service at the last leg, the one connected to the phone.
I mean if switch to switch is digital then why are they still using analog switch to handset? If TV went digital, why not home phone service. It would not be broadband but everyone would have a digital pipe with data and VOIP, even the fly-over state rural areas, and surely that would be faster than 56k baud
Yes I live in a fly over state, in the part that planes don’t fly over, hehe.
The last leg is still analog and it gets messy when talking about switches and stuff… I think the whole system needs an overhaul. All digital seems a damn simple solution.
I’m pretty sure I’m not in the minority on this one.
In a related note, most hotels don’t even have telephones in the rooms anymore. Everyone uses their cell phones anyway. Many hotels replaced calling room service/wakeup call stuff with the in-room TV.
In an unrelated note. I hate golf too. I wish it were an obsolete sport