"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
scribeth thus
"Bill Taylor" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:31:38 -0000, "David Looser"
wrote:



I'm not sure I agree with that. A mobile phone is a personal phone, a
fixed-line phone belongs to a premises; though I grant that this
distinction
is more relevant to businesses. Also of course a fixed-line phone is
much
cheaper to use, and isn't going to fail because the batteries have gone
flat
or there isn't a signal.

You obviously haven't looked at BTs prices recently. £13.29 P.M.
standing charge, 10.9p connection charge and 6.4p per minute daytime
calls. Most mobile contracts are much cheaper than that.

Oh no they aren't!

David.



For some the overall package may well be cheaper .. can you explain why
my 28 YO daughter and all her mates despite being in permanent
residences don't have landline phones anymore?..

An extra 13 or 14 odd quid a month can bring you a lot of extra calling
time..

After you have the mobile which for most all young people these days is
a must have..
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Please read the line I responded to: "Most mobile contracts are much cheaper
than that".

Nobody has seen fit to try and justify that claim, merely given me anecdotes
about what choices various young adults have made. I don't know your
daughter, or her mates, so it's not for me to explain any of the things they
might choose to do, but I suspect you have given the answer yourself:- if a
mobile is a "must-have" then, unless you make a very large number of calls,
it's probably cheaper not to have a landline as well.

As I said at the beginning of this sub-thread a mobile is a personal phone,
a landline belongs to the premises. Do you think call-centres should hand
out mobile phones to all their operators and ditch the landlines?

David.