Thanks to Amazon, it's time to kill your landline

Every single time I go back to my parents' home I try to get them to cancel their home phone line. And every time I fail.

I don't know how much they pay for their phone bill off the top of my head, but whatever it is, it's too much — especially since they rarely use it, and they have smartphones which I generously pay for.

According to a recently published U.S. Health Department finding, 50.8 percent of American homes don't have a landline and have a cellphone instead.

Naturally, as cellphones have become ubiquitous, the number of landlines in homes have declined and will continue to fall. There's simply no need to have a home phone and cellphone — it's an unnecessary duplication. Read more...