Contrast Between Cellular and Landline Phone

It's totally sensible to see people shy away from home phones for cell phones. Both services end up providing the same essential function which is telecommunication. The supply and demand is at work clearly in this matter, and this is why we see the dilution of the needs for home phones. But people need to realize home phone itself does have several advantages over cell phone. In most cases, home phone is still cheaper, more reliable, and not depending on battery life.

Home phone is cheaper when a huge family is big on having each phone in each room to barely satisfy with the idea of having a phone for each person, because having each cell phone for each person is definitely going to be way more expensive than just having one landline phone where any number of home phone can be connected to this particular landline phone.

Home phone is more reliable in a sense that it's always available, because even a major power outage cannot prevent landline phone from working. In the case of landline phone utilizing voice over IP, no power will affectively shut down voice over IP phones. In the case of complex home phones that require electricity to function, then without power will affectively shut down these complex home phones. Every cell phone requires its owner to charge it often. When one forgets to keep the battery life of a cell phone up, then one basically has a phone that isn't working.

High availability of a landline phone provides better security. Example, calling 9-1-1 is utterly important in emergency situations, and you know any landline phone is always going to be available for such critical purposes. Can't say the same for cell phones.

Obviously, cell phones are inherently more convenient and fashionable. It's not a surprise to see the trend of more people forgo their landline phones and pick up cell phone plans according to a report from National Center for Health Statistics. Unfortunately, the lifestyles of nowadays requiring people to stay on top of things at constant rate, and cell phones provide perfect convenience for these people. It seems it's probable that landline phones may have to fade out eventually in most households. Is this a good or a bad thing for people to ditch landline phones, giving that we know the advantages of landline phones over cell phones?

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