College Students Turn Away From Landlines

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Anubis
i graduated last year, the college puts a phone in EVERY room weather or not you need it or not, it doesnt cost you anything but its their so the school doesnt have to make any long distance calls to find you

Since all or almost all of the cost of those phone lines are likely rolled into the cost of tuition, I doubt it costs you nothing.

The on-campus phone lines aren't turned on until you activate them, at which point you recieve a phone bill from the university. So, if you choose not to get a landline, the cost to you really is nothing. I'm not sure what kind of policy they use elsewhere.

So much for PingSpike's verbal diarrhea. Now, if you want to talk about the farse of "free minutes" for wireless... :roll: Who the fvck pays these kids monthly wireless bills anyway?

 

[wiredspider]

Originally posted by: jammur21
Weird, I read the title link as landmines

College Students Turn Away From Landmines - yeah, I'd hope so

Glad I wasn't the only one that read that...

 

[SynthDude2001]

There's a phone line in all the dorm rooms here at the university, but I've had a cell phone since October 2003 (when I was a freshman) and I haven't used the landline since (even at home, when I go back). I honestly don't even know what the phone number is to my room here, and I don't particularly care either.

Edit: It's also more convenient since everyone I talk to is in my old area code (at home) - so this way, they don't need to make a long distance call to talk to me.

 

[Apathetic]

Originally posted by: rubisco
When I went to college, we had HALL phones. No personal phones in our rooms and definitely no cell phones at that time. Man i'm old.

I hear ya. We had two phones for our floor (one at each end). The only way you'd get a message was if someone randomly walking past the phone would:

a) pick up the phone
b) go to your room and knock (assuming the caller knew which room # you lived in)
c) go back to the phone and tell whomever called that you're not there
d) and then go back to your room and leave a message on your door. If you didn't have a dry-erase board or somethng similar, they'd actually have to go back to their room, get a pen and some paper, write the note and then go back to your room to post it.

Needless to say, a lot of messages were never delivered. It was great though for avoiding calls from your folks. 😛

Dave

 

[gigapet]

in soviet russia landlines turn away from you? 😕