Does pretty much everyone these days have a cell??

i dont have a cell phone, still have land lines...

I have my own plan through AT&T now because I get a discount w/ them because I'm a student at Penn State. I pay about $60 a month. I've had a phone since I was in 9th grade .. I started driving in 10th so then my grandparents got me a plan for emergencies.

I don't have a cell phone...never have; never will. I have a home phone. If you want me; get ahold of me there...or leave a message on my old fashioned answering machine.

yeah, that's why my mom got me a cell, incase i ended up on the side of the road out of gas or the phone itself goes out and my mom's not here, cuz i live in the middle of nowhere and it takes about 15 mins to walk to the nearest house, which is either a cousin on one side or an aunt and uncle on the other, lol.

oh, and being 9 months prego, i aint walking that far, lol. but my mom's jsut around 3 corners, lol. 2-3 min driving distance going 30 mph :P

well, when she's at work :P and yeah, its nice to have one for emergencies, so incase a burgular tried to break a wire or something, i still have a way to call 911, even out of mins :D

I do think so

I do have a cell phone and have had one for five or six years now.

My plan is about $80 each month. It's a family share plan, with my husband, through Alltel. We don't go through nearly all the minutes that we have each month, though. We use our vonage phone a lot more often! The only reason that we keep our cell phones is because we need them, because we live out in the middle of nowhere, and you can freeze to death in just a very few minutes here during the winter. We also need them when we are traveling home (1100 miles) so we can call hotels and keep in contact with our family, etc.

My husband and I have prepaid cell phones through virgin mobile for emergencies and quick calls. It is $80 for each phone per year. It really fits our needs well, and we only use them when we travel to contact family on the road.

I don't have one, but I made DH get one for emergencies. :)

Sure do

i like having a cell phone for other reasons too....like if you see an old friend or family member that you've lost contact with, you can just exchange numbers and you dont have to fiddle with paper and pen, and if i'm in town and forget that i need to go to my brother's to get the mail, i can call and see if they're home when we're in town and stop by, i dont have to guess or go all the way back home and call and come all the way back... or if we go to see my boyfriend's mom or grandparents out of the blue while we're going in town, we can call 15 mins in advance and not have to waste gas going back home, just go straight there! :D or sometimes they're in our town and we dont know it, so we can just meet up :) another good thing, directions!!! its always helpful... i love my phone :) and since very few have my number, if i'm on the internet, the landline is busy, so the important phone calls can come on my cell phone :D

We have a Tracfone in case of emergencies or if we need to handle business on the road. It's pretty handy.

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Not everyone does, but they're certainly quite common. I use Verizon and have a $50 monthly plan that allows me plenty of minutes nationwide (no roaming), I can call anyone in the Verizon network without it counting toward my minutes, and have free nights/weekends. It works great for me considering most of those I talk to regularly also use Verizon and I don't end up using most of my peak minutes anyway.

I dont have one now but I always did before I moved out to the middle of nowhere ..but I didnt use it much because if i'm home I prefer to use the land line, and I'm almost always home.. except I would use it to make long distance calls.

We have a family plan of 3 phones with text messaging on 1 of the lines & I think we pay about $100/month.

cricket...$50 a month and everything is unlimited

Verizon

we got rid of our land lines a while back. tax this, tax that, UGH So now we both just have cell phones. We have alltel and they are ok. I would love to have a new phone seems how this one is about 3-4 years old and there are no cool features, but that's ok.

well, the governemnt pays for our basic land line, so i'm set on that! all we pay is for long distance coverage and 3 way. yeah, the governement pays for caller ID too! its cool!

I do have one it's through AT&T. I am a texter. It is a horrible affliction. ;) I pay about $50 a month with unlimited texting and free nights and weekends. Plus it has free mobile to mobile to anyone who uses AT&T which includes my ex husband, my daughter, and my mother-in-law.

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I don't have a cell phone and neither does my daughter.

Nope, only about 80% of Americans have cell phones. About 100% of those that can handle a cell phone -- not too young; not too old -- of Singaporeans and Taiwanese have them.

In total, only about 1.2 billion people have a cell phone with millions of Indians and millions of people in the PRC adding cell phone service each month. Africa is expected to be the next place with tremendous cell phone sales in the near future.

I didn't have one for long time, but now I have a hard time living without it. Things happen and pay phones are scarce these days. I got one after getting stranded in my car and having to take a ride from a stranger because there was no phone nearby.

Woooohoooo, Rob, I totally agree with you 100%....I never have had a darn cell phone and never will......if people need to get ahold of me, they have my "old fashioned" phone here at home and/or my e-mail address....and can IM me really fast......I have NO desire to ever have one. The following is the reason why........
Around 4 or 5 years ago, some very dear friends of mine (the husband was my ninth grade English teacher many years ago) were going home from their daughter's wedding....they were driving on a gravel country road, and there was a 4-way stop....well, here comes this woman in a van, of course, chatting away on her cell phone and NOT paying any attention to her driving......she flew through the stop sign and hit my friends' van HEAD ON.........killing the man....he was thrown from the van and ended up in a ditch (now this man was not small......he was almost 7 ft. tall and weighed around 350 or so lbs.!).......his wife was found dangling from one of the windows.........she managed to survive but was a quadraplegic for 3 years, when she finally died as well.
I had to learn of this ungodly tragedy over the t.v....and late at night.........one of my mom's friends tried desperately to call me before I heard it another way, but I had been at work and had just gotten home...........when I heard it on t.v., I just screamed.............we had to drive 83 miles back home for the visitation before I would believe/accept it.
Oh yeah, and the woman who was talking on the cell phone, she was killed instantly, with the cell phone in her hand......I guess it had to litterally be "dug out" from her hand.........
This, my friends, is why I REFUSE to have a cell phone, and I am perfectly happy with my home phone and having an e-mail address/IM'g!!!!!

I pay about $100.00 a month for 3 cell phones from Verizon. Our son uses his as his only phone for his apartment. He got his first cell phone when he was in college and they decided not to have land line phones in the dorms any more.

My husband and I each carry ours where ever we go. We both work strange and sometimes varying hours. Neither of us can take phone calls at work, so it is important for us to be able to reach each other and leave messages when needed. We also have a lot of older family members that can reach us whenever they need to.

I have a long commute and come home at night, so it is important for me to have my cell phone for emergencys, too.

My land line has been increasing every darn month a bit, so debating if cell would be better? Fine, if you treat it like a regular phone ......... not glued to your head afraid you'll miss a call while working, shopping or driving. Why is it so important to be flapping your mouth after you get one? Sheesh.
That would also mean no land line for dial up. Can't afford both, or, why? High speed internet would be nice, so checking total expenses needed.

have had both pre paid and contract. right now using prepaid

no reason you couldn't have gotten your own phone instead of waiting on your mother to get one for you

I was wondering the same, Elizabeth.

I have alltel.