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Oct 23, 2008

Are Landlines Officially Antiques?

Only a handful of people I know still have landlines at home. It’s especially marked among people under 30, those of us who moved to the city and into a group house soon after college at a time when cell phones were basically mandatory. Maybe we’ve moved into nicer places since then, but who needs a landline? It’s just an extra expense that seems increasingly redundant. But what about in the office? D.C. Wire reports…

 
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