Is "Home Phone Number" a Thing of the Past?

Statistics shows that landlines are becoming less popular amongst users. They are more keen on buying mobile phones. But this trend is seen majorly in youth, users ranging from 18-25 years age.

Do you think its to do with age group or with technology available? I think its to do with technology/options available instead of age group. Graph above shows users in age group 46 and above still have landline/home phones in USA. If we go 20 years back then mobile phones were not available, user were dependent on landlines. So obviously no choice other than landlines. Users in age group 46 & above still feel the need of landlines along with mobile phones.

Whats your thought on this? Is this trend is followed only in USA or in India also people are moving away from landlines & relying more on mobiles for communication?

Do post your comments.

Reduction in Airtel ISD Tariffs

Bharti Airtel announced a 39% reduction in international long distance tariffs to USA and Canada for its mobile users in India.

All Airtel mobile users can now call USA and Canada at Rs 1.99 per minute. This is in line with the company’s endeavour to make international calling more affordable. The revised tariff is applicable on the Airtel STD & ISD calling card worth Rs 2245 only.

Source: ET

Mobile Banking for Oriental Bank Customers

Oriental Bank of Commerce will soon start mobile banking facility for its customers. It will be launched in another 2-3 months.

The bank is in the process of extending its mobile top-up facility under which customer will get their mobile recharged by using ATMs. The bank has tied up with mobile service providers such as Airtel, Hutch, Reliance, MTNL, BSNL, Tata Indicom, etc. for this facility.

Source: ET

India's First Voice Matrimony Service

Bharatmatrimony.com has launched 'Voice Matrimony'- India’s first voice-based matrimony service, in conjunction with Airtel and OnMobile.

Source: the Asian Age

19% Users for Mobile Web

In UK, 5.7 million people use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. Mobile web is already nearly one fifth the size of the PC web. In US, the stat is 17% (30 million of 176 million), which is pretty impressive considering that the US often lags behind a little in mobile. There are as many mobile web users in the US as there are PC web users in the UK.

Source: Mobile Weblog