Landline phone use has dropped just below 50% in the USA

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Just about half of the number of USA households are using wireless communications, but just a little bit below the 50% mark of households using a landline phone still remain loyal to their landline service but at a higher cost. Older people, like myself, still use a landline phone. But, as prices continue to go up to pay for a landline phone service, more people are trying to find ways to cut their costs every month to keep using their landline phones. I was offered this option. I had the option to pay for unlimited landline phone service for about 25 dollars a month plus about another 25 dollars in taxes, making my landline service about 50 dollars per month. Then I was given an option for 200 minutes local outgoing calling and still get unlimited minutes for incoming calls. Based on my situation and that is I do not make long distance calls on my landline phone, I opted for this limited landline telephone service for 200 minutes because it will save us about 20 dollars per month on our local landline phone service. The fact that we can save 20 dollars a month is better than having to stop using our current landline phone. We depend on this service to get important calls from friends and family who call us locally. I depend on having a landline phone because the cell phone option can have it's limitations. For one thing, a cell phone can lose power and have to be charged before making a phone call. A landline phone can be trusted to be always there when I need it. Have you ever been talking on your home phone to another person, who has a cell phone with a blue tooth ear piece? I did today and my good friend's blue tooth ear bud caused everything I said to echo back to my phone and it was quite difficult to understand anything I was saying and it was kind of a distraction plus my friend's voice sounded like he was talking through a long cement tunnel. an article below is worth a read.