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I'm not surprised it's not higher, as people of that age bracket are increasingly staying at home and delaying their move out of the parental domicile. I bet i

by Legion 16y ago

I'm not surprised it's not higher, as people of that age bracket are increasingly staying at home and delaying their move out of the parental domicile. I bet if the numbers were 25-29 year olds who had all left home, it would be significantly higher. I bet very few people in that bracket are actually making the decision to activate a landline in their own places. I am 29 for a few blessed more months, and I have been landline-free since, well, leaving home for college and my own place. Had I been one of those stay-at-home-until-your-30s types, though, I would fall on the landline side of the statistical breakdown.

electromagnetic 16y ago
I'm 22, for a few more months, and the only reason I got a landline when I moved out is because my cable company offered it to me for ~$4 a month (in total I think it made our bill $10 less a month due to combo savings) and it helped resolve the issue that our buzzer uses the phone network and we couldn't decide who (between me and my wife) should have the buzzer calling their cell. It also enables me to use a long distance calling card for free, so I can make calls that would cost far in excess of $4 to call my family in the UK. We do have many friends who are solely cellular homes. It's cheaper for them to pay for low minutes on a smartphone plan than it is to get a land line.