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05-10-2017, 06:58 AM
Thanks to Amazon, it's time to kill your landline
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Every single time I go back to my parents' home I try to get them to cancel their home phone line. And every time I fail.
I don't k**w how much they pay for their phone bill off the top of my head, but whatever it is, it's too much — especially since they rarely use it, and they have smartphones which I generously pay for.
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According to a recently published (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201705.pdf) U.S. Health Department finding, 50.8 percent of American homes don't have a landline and have a cellphone instead.
Naturally, as cellphones have become ubiquitous, the number of landlines in homes have declined and will continue to fall. There's simply ** need to have a home phone and cellphone — it's an unnecessary duplication. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/amazon-echo-calling-landline-replacement/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Every single time I go back to my parents' home I try to get them to cancel their home phone line. And every time I fail.
I don't k**w how much they pay for their phone bill off the top of my head, but whatever it is, it's too much — especially since they rarely use it, and they have smartphones which I generously pay for.
SEE ALSO: Why the Echo Show could be Amazon’s most disruptive product (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/amazon-echo-show-disruptive/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
According to a recently published (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201705.pdf) U.S. Health Department finding, 50.8 percent of American homes don't have a landline and have a cellphone instead.
Naturally, as cellphones have become ubiquitous, the number of landlines in homes have declined and will continue to fall. There's simply ** need to have a home phone and cellphone — it's an unnecessary duplication. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/amazon-echo-calling-landline-replacement/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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