I must admit, I feel lost without my phone, but mainly for the text messaging service. I may make 5-8 calls a month but I send at least 1 text a day. It's cheaper for one thing, and I can save the answer if it's instructions or a date.

If I were to be totally honest, I only text people so they can reply to me and annoy the rest of my office with various folk tunes that are programmed in as the ringtones! Well I have to put up with their choice of ringtones....!

They are here to stay... there will be a decrease in landline use and sooner or later we'll be free of cables up poles. It'll make life a bit easier for the telephone repair men, and those who drive tall vehicles, but the starlngs and swallows will miss them.

LTS