“While the number of wireless-only households is increasing — close to 6 percent of all U.S. homes at the end of last year, according to Forrester Research Inc. — the trend isn’t accelerating as quickly as many experts predicted. And some consumers are reconsidering their decision to go wireless and are reconnecting to a landline.”

A well done article, per the Post-Gazette’s long-running and well informed interest in telephony. My only complaint: this article implies that the blackout of 2003 was a time in which landlines worked just fine. Many if not most landlines and payphones were useless during the blackout. With 7 or 8 other payphones around why do you think there was such a long line at this Queens payphone? Because it was the only one among them that worked! My home landline phone did not work during the blackout, and the same is true of others I know. The conventional wisdom that landlines will work during natural disaster appears to be false.
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