Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"
From: Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp128 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:17:37 -0800 (PST)

Has anybody asked--or stated---why this distinction is necessary? Maybe if we knew more about the audience and the use-case, we might be able to make more useful recommendations.

Just my $0.02
Marguerite

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

From: Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 12:10 PM

One question I had to ask myself in reading the various responses to the OP: are
wired phones that out of date that the average 6th grader wouldn't know about
them or be able to distinguish the difference between a cell (mobile, if you
will) phone and a hard-wired phone? Whether via their own homes or those of
others, tv, the Internet, or during some elementary school science lesson?
Surely they still teach about Alexander Graham Bell in the early grades?


I like "home phone" or "home telephone." A cell phone is a "mobile" phone,
regardless where it's used. It may supplant a hard-wired phone at home, but I
think your average 6th grader would know enough about wired phones to understand
the differences. 

Btw, for all practical purposes, the typical cordless phone is a hard-wired
phone, as its base station is usually connected to a telephone network. Add VoIP
phones into the mix though, specifically those that look and act like
"landlines," and distinctions start to become cloudy without a discussion about
types of services/providers. 
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