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The City Administrator's office in Washington D.C. and semi-conductor manufacturer KLA-Tencor, have taken the first steps towards cutting the cord. They've both launched pilot programs in order to save money where small numbers of employees (between 30 and 40) have been issued cell phones and given up their dedicated desk lines.
St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN; Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI; Roanoke College in Salem, VA; and Elon University in Elon, NC have taken more strident steps. The colleges have removed landlines from dorms over the past two years and educators have embraced their mobiles as a better way of keeping in touch with students on the go.
It's only a matter of time before we think of wired phones the same way we do of vinyl records and VHS tapes: quaint relics of a simpler time. [From: USA Today]
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Subscribe to commentsTVGeniusDec 31st 2008 12:23AM
Strange that colleges would do that. I would expect most to be installing systems (if they didn't have one already) to be able to ring all landlines in an emergency, since that would be more effective than calling students cell phones.
P CDec 31st 2008 6:12PM
Considering the Cell Phone providers are fighting providing emergency backup power to keep the network running when power blackouts, businesses and schools, and cell users that expect to be in contact with customers and students, schools and businesses at all times need to reevaluate loosing the reliability of land lines. I keep a non-powered regular land line phone in the house because I can use it
when I need to even when power is gone in the house, stae, region!