Many Canadians seemingly have a cell phone I doubt that would surprise anyone living outside of Canada with a little quick research. They are relatively easy to acquire and the most basic mobile phone will likely have the following features such as making and receiving phone calls, email, text message others through SMS/MMS or RCS, perform calculations, translate, transcribe, take photographs, record and playback video content (hello movies), record and playback audio (hello music) and let’s not forget they can also access the internet (or an intranet) and interact with other electronic devices through wireless communication protocols like Bluetooth and WIFI.
Depending on the components of your cell phone which sometimes may come down to expenses or access to better baseline technology used in the phone it will perform these features mentioned above decently to exceptionally well.
Cool what about Landlines?
I love Landlines for many reasons but mostly because I see them as anchors to their home (if you have a fixed abode), it is the phone number for your residence. That number that links you to the home address, may land you more easily in yellow and white pages if you don’t opt-out and it’s perfect to hand to family, healthcare services, schools, other parents if you have kids and so on. It doesn’t quite give everyone that full access to disrupt or intrude into your life that the cell phone may but just like emergency services it’s a decent fixed point of reference for a place to contact you or pass on information.
It’s no longer personal if you don’t get back to someone because they know you must of seen their message by now or why didn’t you answer the clearly missed call that’s not visible to you with one swipe. People can genuinely be busy, may not be allowed to even respond to others while at work or doing activities at home/out.
If I call the house you’re (hopefully) there and you answer (hopefully). If you call me from the house you’re there and not somewhere else (hopefully) and when you call me I’ll answer (hopefully).
Now of course I’m talking about as close to traditional landline connections here via copper/fiber lines (take this from a BT, Bell Canada and Rogers user) and hopefully setup with voicemail services. We shall not get into the mess that is call forwarding, masking and so on. We’re keeping it real.
I bet there’s some segment out there on a popular video/social media sharing platform made others that talks about life back when people only had Landlines or used the nearby payphone along with tales on what it was like to use dial-up internet and how Stella got her groove back, but I’m not talking about that here. Go find them.
You’ll easily see landlines in offices and plenty brick and mortar establishments but the need is slowly fading from residential homes especially those of families where perhaps it benefitted them most as now they likely just have a phone each with no “home phone”.
No thanks, what about VoIP?
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become more popular than ever many people use VoIP services for their “home phone”, many use a VoIP service through messenger & social platforms like Discord, not too different than ICQ in the 90s and that’s how they talk to their friends and even family (in addition to typical cell phone services mentioned at the beginning).
VoIP can in a sense be incredibly low priced if not “free”. You will need internet in some manner and a device to access your VoIP service/client and if you’re someone on the roam travelling, young or have budget issues it’s quite reliable overall. Sometimes this may be how others use their cell phone to make “phone calls and texts” over a standard cell phone provider.
The downside to this is technology is it opened the doors to others masking their true identities which has been detriment to society. Be it scam phone/video calls, texts, disposable telephone numbers or being used for infidelity among romantic partners and interests as well as cause reputable damage to businesses.
In truth if you’re using technology there is always a trace of what you do in some manner. It’s not a case of did you wipe or destroy the evidence. You never can fully destroy what you have already done when you understand the levels others in the world can recovery data and the surveillance available to some on this earth. If it took place in time then it can be observed then it can be observed.
Just like rewinding back footage on security tapes from you need to think bigger and more complex then what others do with their phones and who they call and message.
Walk with me.
Regards,
Alexander/Zenchi
