Wooly <nobody@nunya> wrote in news:47554baa$0$2365
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:

> Larry wrote:
>
>> I justify it by not having an AT&T landline at home, which I
>> consider obsolete. I'll never figure why someone with a
>> SELLphone they're paying so much for has another drain on
their
>> funds with a useless landline with even MORE stupid addon
>> charges, like "long distance", a throwback into the 1930's.
>
> Because it's a lot easier for a child to find the phone mom
drills him
> to use in an emergency when the phone is *always* attached to
the
> kitchen wall, and because the landline will *always* accurately
report
> its number and location to the 911 center, unlike cellphones.
>

Hmm....If a child is that young, shouldn't it be with its parents
or a trusted adult? If a child is 12, these days, the child has
his/her own phone and knows much more about its use (and hacking)
than all the adults in the house, combined.

As to 911, the SELLphone in the child's pocket is accessible,
from anywhere the child is located.....not just if the child is
trapped against the kitchen wall where the wall phone is located.
The kitchen phone won't help the child on her way home from
school or at the store or at the neighbor's house locked up by
the pedophile daddy of her friend, will it?

Larry
--
Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you
you're downloads threaten their networks......
.....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems?
http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v