Are You For Or Against Cellphones

I'm against cellphones. The old copper landmind telephone is way more reliable, never needs to be charged, no software to be updated, works with answering machine, so no voice mail needed, then you can bring back the payphones

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

The trouble in the UK is that the old copper wire system is now not able to meet the demand for telephony so we are abandoning it and going over to all digital lines. We will still be able to have home phones so what we call mobile phones won't be essential for communicating. I am not convinced it will be better than the old system, but it seems that as the copper wire infrastructure becomes worn out it will be more expensive to replace than abandoning it and putting more fibre cable in.

ElwoodBlues · M

@FreddieUK Good point! infrastructure for wireless smart phones is much cheaper than the equivalent wired infrastructure would be.

HumanEarth · F

Sad part it's not as reliable as the old copper lines were.

ElwoodBlues · M

@HumanEarth Until a storm blows down a tree that hits a pole or cable span, and fifty or 100 wire pairs have to be spliced with no errors.