Is this the end of landlines?

[Mergie Master]

Is this the end of landlines?

Some telephone companies are asking the government to end traditional landline service

From the article:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which twice a year tracks the percentage of households that still use landlines, reported in December that 35.8 percent of U.S. households have gone wireless-only, a 77.2 percent bump over late 2008. In addition, 9.4 percent of households remain landline-only, a decrease of roughly 46 percent during that same period.

Why? Why is the CDC interested in who has a landline and who doesn't? That has nothing to do with their mission.

I'm sure other government entities like the FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, etc want everyone to use cell or internet. Those are much easier to tap than a land line where they have to physically tap into a line.

[firemedic]

I keep telling people in the storm prone area's
Keep your land line phone and keep an older model phone around, instead or the wireless handsets. If the power goes out and you can't charge your cell phone and the house phone won't work because the base for the hand set has no power , you can still use that ugly phone to make calls if you have to.


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[Mobetter]

If the power goes out and you can't charge your cell phone

Car charger.

[firemedic]

I meant in the middle of a hurricane When you can't go outside


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