How many should you own?

[Skeithex]

How many electronic devices do you think a person or maybe a family should own?

[froggyboy604]

I think people should at least own a desktop computer + monitor, and a home telephone to call for the police, ambulance, fire department, and make appointments for doctor visits, and job interviews. But, if you are somewhat tech-savvy you can use the internet to make calls, and text from a desktop PC.

Laptop PCs are sometimes less reliable in my experience compared to a desktop which sometimes work for many years if you perform maintenance, and repair jobs on a monthly or yearly basis. I know of more people who had problems with laptops compared to desktop pcs which seem more durable.

A desktop PC can also cheaply store many Terabytes of data with 3.5 inch hard drives which cost less than 2.5 inch drives, and SSD. It is also easy to upgrade the Disc Drive to a better Blu-Ray drive for watching 4K Blu-Ray movies on a desktop PC.

A cell phone may not be necessary if you mostly stay at home, and you live in a small town with not a lot of crime where you are less likely to get in a fight, and need to call for help.

[Skeithex]

It's nearly impossible to find anyone with a land line telephone anymore. Only the really old people still use them and their children are slowly moving from land lines to cell phones.

[froggyboy604]

It's nearly impossible to find anyone with a land line telephone anymore. Only the really old people still use them and their children are slowly moving from land lines to cell phones.

I think VOIP "Voice Over Internet Protocol" is becoming more popular, and a lot of cable and phone companies now use internet cables like Fibre and TV cables like COAX cable to transmit phone signals, so landline are now similar to VOIP by using the internet to make calls.

VOIP can be used on a desktop computer, or you can use a standalone VOIP device which simulates an landline when you plug in a phone.

In Canada, the internet, and Cable TV prices becomes more expensive if subscribers don't subscribe to land lines from the Cable, and DSL or Fibre company which is also the TV and landline provider. You need to subscribe to a bundle which include TV, Internet, and Phone to get a good price, and enough bandwidth and speed for watching Netflix, and gaming.

Land line telephones are still popular with schools, offices, and families in Canada. Land lines cost $10 or less a month, so it can be worth it if you make a lot of calls, and need a secondary line for work, or personal use. Using a landline, and a cheaper prepaid cell phone with fewer voice minutes is more affordable than subscribing to an unlimited voice call, data, and text cell phone plan which can cost hundreds of dollars a month.

If you live alone, owning a landline is good for safety reasons since cell phones like the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 can catch on fire for unlucky users which means they have no phone until they buy a new one from a cell phone store.

Plus, if a user cell phone exploded, broke, or caught on fire at home, the cell phone user can't quickly call the fire department, or for an ambulance for help because they don't subscribe to a land-line. Cell phones also get stolen, and getting a replacement cell phone can take many hours, or days to weeks if they buy a cell phone on eBay and Amazon.

[Skeithex]

I think business will always use landlines but I'm sure they will vanish from homes.

[froggyboy604]

I think business will always use landlines but I'm sure they will vanish from homes.

A few cell phone service companies in Canada are also landline phone, internet, and cable TV service companies, and you can sometimes save a few dollars by bundling your cell phone, landline, cable TV, and internet service with one company.

Unfortunately, standalone cell phone service plans in Canada and other countries are very expensive where the plans can cost hundreds of dollars a month if you want unlimited or thousands of minutes of talk calls, unlimited text, and more than 10GB of bandwidth or unlimited data service. The overage fees for going over your talk minutes, or data limits are also more expensive than going over your data limit on regular wired internet like DSL and Cable where you only pay a few dollars for an extra 50GB of data on Wired internet.. The basic cell plans cost $80 a month for 300 local calling minutes, unlimited text and 1GB of data.

If someone is poor like working a minimum wage job, or unemployed, they may only be able to afford to subscribe to a $10 a month landline as their primary phone line, or use voip/voice over internet protocol programs like Skype, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger to make calls over a DSL or cheaper cable connection if they only subscribe to cheap broadband, and not both cheap broadband, and cheap landline phone service.

A lot of people these days run a business from their home or small shop/office to make extra money because they are not earning enough from their minimum wage job, or they gave up finding a job which pays enough money to pay for rent, food, utilities, and medication.

Paying $10 a month for a landline is good for home businesses since a landline has better call quality, better reliability, and unlimited talk minutes compared to cell phone plans which are more limited, and can cost hundreds of dollars if you subscribe to unlimited plans.

[Skeithex]

I think business will always use landlines but I'm sure they will vanish from homes.

A few cell phone service companies in Canada are also landline phone, internet, and cable TV service companies, and you can sometimes save a few dollars by bundling your cell phone, landline, cable TV, and internet service with one company.

Unfortunately, standalone cell phone service plans in Canada and other countries are very expensive where the plans can cost hundreds of dollars a month if you want unlimited or thousands of minutes of talk calls, unlimited text, and more than 10GB of bandwidth or unlimited data service. The overage fees for going over your talk minutes, or data limits are also more expensive than going over your data limit on regular wired internet like DSL and Cable where you only pay a few dollars for an extra 50GB of data on Wired internet.. The basic cell plans cost $80 a month for 300 local calling minutes, unlimited text and 1GB of data.

If someone is poor like working a minimum wage job, or unemployed, they may only be able to afford to subscribe to a $10 a month landline as their primary phone line, or use voip/voice over internet protocol programs like Skype, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger to make calls over a DSL or cheaper cable connection if they only subscribe to cheap broadband, and not both cheap broadband, and cheap landline phone service.

A lot of people these days run a business from their home or small shop/office to make extra money because they are not earning enough from their minimum wage job, or they gave up finding a job which pays enough money to pay for rent, food, utilities, and medication.

Paying $10 a month for a landline is good for home businesses since a landline has better call quality, better reliability, and unlimited talk minutes compared to cell phone plans which are more limited, and can cost hundreds of dollars if you subscribe to unlimited plans.

I never buy into the bundles for companies, if you just get one or two then you won't be spending as much.