Turns out we weren't kidding about a pay phone as a museum piece......... see the link below.......

AP Story on disappearing pay phones
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> Turns out we weren't kidding about a pay
> phone as a museum piece......... see the
> link below.......

It's happening to all land lines:

"In number, cell phones are creeping up on landline phones. They already comprise about 43 percent of all U.S. phones, according to the International Telecommunication Union, up from 37 percent in 2000.

Meanwhile, the number of U.S. landline phones has dropped by more than 5 million, or nearly 3 percent, since 2000, the Federal Communications Commission reported in June.

The United States hasn't been the quickest to adapt. Already, more than half the phones in the world are cellular."

We've been living this way for almost two years now - we still have a landline as a DSL support system, but never answer it.

JAC

CNN.com