One day our kids will ask us looking at it, “What is that machine with a wire on it?” We would say, “Child, that is a landline!” and he would probably go blank. We would have to sit and tell them stories of how we used to be hooked up on this thing for hours before the cell phone became very popular and of course more affordable. Analysts predict that 2025 could be the last year of landline phones in America because on an average these phones are being unplugged in favor of a cell phone at a rate of 700,000 a month. In 2005 only 7.3 per cent relied on cell phones and end of 2008 it has become more than 20%. The trend carries far-reaching implication for polling firms, businesses, telemarketers and emergency responders, who rely on call-tracing software that works on landlines, but not on cells. I guess I better store my landline safely tucked away. You will never know 20 years later it would become a collectible which I could sell off for a fortune! Like Vintage cars!

[UPI]