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You're missing some of the context of cell phones these days. For many customers, the cell phone is actually cheaper, more powerful, and more flexible than a landline phone and in fact, younger customers often no longer have landline phones at all. Cell phone with unlimited local service is $50/month in many cities. Landline phone? $20-30 and that's without ANY services or features beyond incoming calls. Voicemail, call forwarding, callerID, outgoing calls...all extras on the landline. And when kids shift from high school, to college, to their own first "home", to the next job or marriage or out of town, the one cell phone stays with them.
Who needs landlines? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Some folks say all sailors are rich. Some sailors disagree. Well...from some points of view, it doesn't matter how slim your sailing budget is--it isn't a necessity, and that makes it a luxury, and by definition that makes anyone who sails a rich wastrel ripe for the picking. To some.
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