Do you use a cell phone?

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: Do you use a cell phone?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Bertha!

I voted yes, but the better option for me would have been "sometimes."

I don't use it much...

And, being curious myself...why do you ask?

:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

2. In the thread where I bitched about my phone bill,

more than one person said they didn't use 'em.

[Left Is Write]

11. My cell phone bill is about $60 per month.

I have 450 anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited free mobile-to-mobile calls with anyone else who has AT&T, and unlimited text. I use it all the time. The only time I use a regular phone is at work, and that's only when I'm physically at the office. Otherwise, I use the cell for work too.

My husband has the same plan plus unlimited internet. I'm not sure what his bill is; our accounts are not linked.

We only have our landline phone for satellite tv updates and our security system. We have the bare bones service, and it's around $21 per month.

[SPKrazy]

32. my bare bones landline is about the same

and I had ATT but went to sprint, 99 a month for unlimited and free mobile to mobile

well prob with that is fewer people I know have sprint but I bought out of my ATT contract. Was really unhappy with the buzzing sound on the phone. Went through 3 phones and then decided for that reason and someone I wanted to talk with a lot more had sprint so we could have mobile to mobile.

But the unlimited anytime minutes and internet access and texts for 99 is not a bad price

:shrug:

[quakerboy]

3. In Soviet Russia, Cell phone uses you.

Crap. Its kinda like that here as well.

[Bertha Venation]

4. As my phone bill can attest!

Touché. :)

[quakerboy]

6. I am "lucky"

I have a cell, but my boss picks up the tab. Course, my calls are 99% business, so well he should, but still.

[driver8]

5. Maybe once a week. I don't even know my cell phone number!

My wife gets so mad at me because I never have my cell phone on.

I hate the freakin' things!!

[Arkansas Granny]

9. You've described me and my cell phone. My kids gave it to me because they

worry about me needing help for some reason and not being near a phone. I usually forget to charge it and discover that I've been carrying a dead phone around.

[bigwillq]

7. Yes.

It's a staple in my life.

[hobbit709]

8. Sometimes but it's turned off most of the time.

[rug]

10. I did until I lost it.

[Lucian]

12. Yep.

I have a BlackBerry Storm, so I'd be stupid not using it since it was awfully expensive.

I actually talked on it for three hours yesterday! :o

[KamaAina]

13. Hell, I don't use a land-line phone if I can help it!

That's why the FSM gave us the intertubes!

[supernova]

14. Yes, I use Virgin Mobile

phone w/ a camera.

I only have to put in $20 worth of minutes every three months. It's great if you're not that talkative. :-)

[Eyerish]

15. That's what I have too...

I've had it for over 4 years now and I really like it. I'm not a big phone talker so I just use it for when I travel or for emergencies.

[SPKrazy]

30. that would never work for me

I talk too much

and text too much

you aren't talkative?

:shrug:

:hi:

[hunter]

36. I use Virgin. I don't talk much on the phone. Any phone.

At the moment I'm about $140 up. That $7.00 a month I pay in is doing better than our retirement accounts!

[csziggy]

16. Rarely - I have a Tracfone and use about 200 minutes per year

At least for the last two years, which included building my house and the campaign. I think this year it has been turned on for less than 30 minutes. It stays in my purse for emergencies and the most use is to call my husband when I am running errands and see if he wants to meet to eat out. With the economy and all we've eaten out once since the first of the year.

Thanks for the question - it reminded me that I need to renew my Tracfone. Since I have about 350 minutes left on it, this year I think I will just buy a year's service and no minutes.

[mnhtnbb]

17. Family plan for 4. Our cell phone bill is about $130/mo. One son who has his own place

doesn't have a land line. Other son in college, lives on campus. Hubby and I use our cell phones rarely.

[mainegreen]

18. Not willingly. Required for my job, but I hate the thing with the passion of a thousand fiery suns.

I have never felt the desire to call people on the go.
I HATE getting calls on the go, and unless work related I will ignore them.

[Mutley]

19. My cell phone is my only phone.

I have no need for a land line, so why pay for one?

[tabbycat31]

20. ditto

I pay $42.06 for talk and text every month. My parents landline bill is easily twice that.

[deutsey]

21. Yes, but I rarely use it. n/t

[lizziegrace]

22. I don't have a land line anymore

And when I did, it was VOIP (Vonage). I have a phone for my business and one that's personal. I use an air card from Verizon for internet access as there is no high speed internet here in this 170 year old house.

[IntravenousDemilo]

23. If...

... I could find a company that had no system access fees, didn't levy roaming charges, charged nothing for incoming or outgoing calls, and cost a flat $25 per month, then I might consider getting one. As it is, I've managed to do without for five decades (as can anyone), and some little part of me still associates cell phones and pagers with dope dealers. Also, I see no economic point in having both a real phone and a cell.

I've never had a credit card either.

[azmouse]

24. I have one but I couldn't tell you the last time I used it.

It's been years.

I wouldn't even bother having the phone but we get one free with the service my husband uses for his Blackberry.

[Redstone]

25. Not if I can possibly help it.

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

26. I have one, I pay about $40 for 450 anytime minutes (that rollover)

Unlimited nights and weekends.
Up to 200 text messages.

My husband has a pay as you go Virgin Mobile phone that he rarely uses.

[Bryan]

27. Yes

I held out on getting one until 2005 as I don't use the telephone very often, but the convenience of being able to contact people on the fly when I do need to make calls makes it worthwhile (and I pay one-third of the bill for a group plan with two other people, so the economics are reasonable). I have Verizon, which is strongly networked in my area, and I've had no trouble with them.

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. nope

my kids want me to get one but I aint gonna

[SPKrazy]

29. all the time

I have a no frills home phone and my cell has unlimited long distance, email, internet access, so I'm never away from electronic communications.

Have many reasons that is important to me...

;)

[TK421]

34. you never call....you never write@!!!!##$%$

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. Yes, but it's pretty rare.

I'm glad to have it for emergencies. And mine's cheaper than a payphone since I have a pay-as-you-go plan.

[Bertha Venation]

47. Heh. What's a pay phone?

:crazy:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. You don't see too many of those anymore...

[Mike 03]

33. No. I hate the very idea. One of my sisters GAVE me a Blackberry, and I

fiddled around with it for about a week, and learned how to text, and I appreciated how it could help me if I were in a jam (like my car breaking down) and needed to call AAA, but the horror of being texted with such nonsense, or being called at any time with trivia drove me crazy.

She was doing a very kind thing, but it wasn't for me. I despise even normal landline phones as it is.

So I just have this wonderful device, the Blackberry, disconnected and jammed in a box with all of its accessories, and I don't miss it one bit.

Anybody want a Blackberry cheap? I hate the fucking thing. But I don't want to hurt my sister's feelings by giving it back to her.

I just hate the idea of being accessible to anyone at every moment. It makes me more anxious than I already am.

[Flaxbee]

35. yes, but dammit, I want pay-as-you-go pricing like Europeans, Russians,

Kazakhis, probably everyone OTHER than the US has.

You have to buy your own phone outright, not via some plan - yes, it's a bit of $$ up front, but in the long run, MUCH less than getting locked into a 2-year contract.

So, buy the phone, then pay for minutes via a kiosk or the Internet.

We bought a phone while in Russia for about $50, and then just bought minutes as we needed them at a kiosk - worked in St. Petersburg, Moscow, even when we went to Kazakhstan. Got a different SIM card, and it worked in Germany, where we also bought minutes.

It is a VAST improvement. Some months I'd probably pay nothing. Some months no doubt I'd pay more. But at least it would be MY choice.

F&cking US cell phone plans!


edited for clarity...

[Evoman]

37. I'm 29 years old....I hate the bloody things. I have never had one.

The thought of people phoning me wherever I go makes me anxious. It makes me upset that these days, whenever I get together with a larger group of people, more than half of them are texting people who aren't even around instead of fucking talking to the people right in front of them.

I hate them.

[dysfunctional press]

38. cingular go phone- but i use it very rarely...

at 25 cents/minute, i used 80 dollars worth last year.

[emilyg]

39. Just gave up my landline - so yes.

[DarkTirade]

40. Yes. But I didn't get it until I actually needed it.

And the first time it started buzzing at me was when I was in the middle of going to the bathroom. It was in my pants pocket. So all of a sudden, as I was trying to pee, my pants started vibrating.

That was very awkward.

[old mark]

41. No. Had one, didn't like it, but I will get one later this summer -

just to be able to keep in contact when I'm out gadding about.

mark

[LibDemAlways]

42. I have a cell phone and use it once in a while to contact my

teenager if she's out with friends and I don't happen to be home. Otherwise I don't even like to talk on the phone and hardly use my land line either.

[aikoaiko]

43. I ditched my landline.

cell phone only now

[Mollis]

44. Yep. Use it every day.

Unlimited Verizon to Verizon, and that's really all I use. Unlimited texting, which I do all the time.

[enigmatic]

45. Yes, and I use it for everything except calling people

I'll call Mrs. E when I need to, but that's about it. I'm usually on the internet or listening to the feed of my station if I've got it out, but that's it..

[bridgit]

46. Like E-yeah ya'think?