[lbo-talk] mobile phones and telemarketers [was: backlash?]

[Cliff Staples]

There was an AP story yesterday on the trend of people giving up land lines 
altogether.  Lots of people will still want a phone number from you for 
various reasons however (I finally told the clerks at Radio Shack that if 
they asked me for my phone number again just to buy batteries I was walking 
out the door) , and I at least have no interest in giving out my cell 
number to all but the very few, so I just give out my office number and let 
voice mail deal with it.

Cliff

At 02:35 PM 8/5/03 -0700, you wrote:


>On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Wojciech Sokolowski wrote:
>
> > That would be very interesting to know.  I disconnected my land line
> > about six months ago due to high volume of telemarketing calls (caller
> > ID did not prevent being disturbed by continuous ringing, including
> > attempts to send faxes at 3 AM) and use only a mobile phone.  So far I
> > have not received a single telemarketing call, but I am also using my
> > old disconnected number  forinternet orders, credit cards etc.  I
> > wonder, however, how long this freedom form telemarketers is going to
> > last?
> >
> > Wojtek
>
>Up to this point, I've resisted the urge to get a mobile phone, but
>W. has a great point here.  I didn't realize how insulated mobile
>phones were from the incessant telemarketing.  Is there any good
>reason to have a land line anymore?  The baby bells must love this
>trend (a number of my relatives have abandoned land lines like W.).
>
>Miles
>
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