What Are The Advantages Of Having Landline Phones?
With the use and sale of mobile phones rapidly increasing through modern society landline telephones have taken a backseat
. However this is not to say that they are inferior. On the contrary landline phones still possess many desirable traits that mobiles still lack.
Firstly landline phones are rarely compromised by signal or by battery life, therefore neither is your conversation. Because landline phones are more reliable and they are easier for emergency services to trace they are more dependable in an emergency.
Secondly landlines are known to be considerably cheaper than mobiles. Many landline telephone providers offer cost effective deals that include a landline, TV and broadband. Furthermore people are able to communicate around the world for a reasonable price due to offers from some providers on cheap long distance calls.
Many landline telephone providers also supply a phonebook with their service, undoubtedly a useful resource to have when your boiler breaks. However, this could be considered less necessary in the present day, as much of this information can be found on the Internet at the click of a button.
Another valuable aspect of a landline phone is its security, as we all know from recent events regarding the News of the World, it is far easier to hack into a mobile than a landline. Even with present day technology there still seems to be no substitute for the security that is provided with a landline. It has been suggested that this lack of security is likely to prevent businesses from ever moving completely away from landlines.
It is also arguable that some of the advantages of mobiles can prove to cause problems in themselves. For example employers that have moved on from landlines may find their workers straying further and further from their desk. This freedom could quite easily become a distraction and thus hinder productivity. Also using mobiles rather than landlines in a business could prove somewhat irritating when you are contacted outside of business hours. Moreover providing employees with mobiles could end costing a business a lot of money if this privilege was misused.
The gradual demise of landlines also has other implications. Politicians that wish to reach young voters often have to be creative in their campaigns as calls to mobiles prove to be too expensive. This has lead to them using Internet commercials and pop up adverts, something Im sure wed all appreciate seeing less of.