Will home telephones one day become obsolete?

Question

Think about it. Wireless Internet, cell phones, etc. what do you think and why?

Answer 1

Possible but not likely. .

The problem with cell phones is that it takes so little to disrupt them. Home phones, however are hardwired and more difficult to disrupt.

There certainly is a trend toward increased cell phone use and decreasing home phone lines.

You also have to remember that lots of people have their broadband internet service via the phone company. As long as Ma Bell continues to offer bundled services, those people are not likely to migrate toward just cell phones.

It may happen in the future, but for the next few years, home phone will probably remain hardwired.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Home telephones are still in demand, but the whole change for communications will come probably within 50 more years and that will cut off the main stream and isolate the direct calls made from your mobile service only which will be part of your networking source at home.

Microchips are still being invented to hold more on the cell phone. The more powereful it's the more dangerous it becomes. Would you want to be talking a cell phone when it's raining that holds 100 pure watts of power?

Answer 4

Before there were cell phones, land lines kept getting more and more expensive, partly because companies kept offereing add-on's to generate revenue, but also because they knew there were no options and people had to pay whether they liked it or not.

And then along came cell phones, which not only offered an alternative, but were also portable. And landline companies profits took a horrendous dive toward death. Greed & arrogance caught up with them.

I maintain a land line for these reasons:
Now it's a lot cheaper than it used to be.
It provides me with a fax line if necessary.
Given the increasing expense of cell phones, I still have an alternate number, if needed.
Compared to VoIP, I don't need to maintain a separate Internet account just to have a telephone.
I'm not dependent upon household electricity failure for my phone service.

There are a LOT of companies that still use landlines for their megalithic phone systems. Yeah, one day such things will become obsolete, but you're still looking at 25 years out.

Answer 5

I have been wondering the same thing, actually. I remember the days of only calling people on their cell phones when you couldn't get an answer at home first. I don't have a home line, only my cell phone....when I first moved into my own place we had a home line that we never used and it was actually bothersome when someone called it - even with caller ID! None of my friends have home lines....and with the packages with cell phones, even the digital phone with companies like Time Warner aren't a deal these days.

So yes, I think they will and already are. The older generations, ie my parents, still have home lines but people my age (mid-late 20s) aren't using them. As cell phones start to become more advanced, why do we need home lines anyway.

Answer 6

If not obsolete, they will become a rare thing. I know many people, myself included, who don't have a home line at all. I just use my cell phone.

Cell phones are also becoming more complicated and sometimes it's easier to send some one a text or chat through internet on your iPhone than it is to make a call.

As technology evolves, we will be on call all the time wherever we are. It doesn't make sense to rely on a home phone.

Answer 7

They already are. At Domino's we used to have a policy that said we weren't allowed to take orders from cell phones, only traceable land-lines (this was for safety, since robbers could call from anywhere and not be traced). But then we realized enforcement of said policy would effectively exclude over 75% of our customers. If you include VOIP into that equation, I would say, the only people who have old fashion phone service, are the older people who fear technology (I'm not afraid of offending these people cuz they'll never see this), or people who've had their phone for years and just don't feel like changing.

Answer 8

I haven't had a home land line in more than 5 years. I have my cell and my cable internet, so the land line was an unnecessary expense.

Answer 9

Yes it's already happening. Most people who have cell phones or internet lines to call out, have done away with landlines. Why have two bills?

Answer 10

wow i just marked this as interesting coz i neva thought of it and yeh it could happen. thats amazing. well most people do have internet and stuff and then in a few years u will have the people with their home phones and they will be laughed at and called old fashioned