Now where is Superman supposed to change?

It's about phreaking time.

My dog has two cell phones, thank you very much.

The British Telecom phone booths look really nice not to mention all the handy hooker ads inside :-)

Riiight... and next you're going to tell me that Christopher Columbus wasn't the first person to discover the Americas, that there's a NEW Mexico, that there's no Santa Claus...

My 76 year old dad has neither a cell phone nor a computer, and he likes it that way!

I'm reminded of my mother's dad, who still used the outhouse even after my Uncle installed plumbing and a bathroom. "I lived [n] years without [plumbing/cell phones] and I don't need one now!

I can just see when I hit 90. "Damn it, I lived 90 years without a matter replicator or a transporter and I don't need one now!"

-mcgrew

The British Telecom phone booths look really nice not to mention all the handy hooker ads inside :-

Not to mention the problems it would create for Doctor Who.

I remember when you just had to push some buttons on a little box that you bought from that guy who always wore a trench coat, and the calls were free ;-)

What's 2600 supposed to put on their back cover now?

some new apartment blocks lack doorbells

Just think: someday you Fins will invent KNOCKING. nom nom nom

And where exactly do I ask you is Tony Soprano supposed to call in his hits from now? He cant use his freaking cell phone... fongu!

I remember when cereal boxes would come with a whistle that would give you free calls, now THAT was a prize!

What are you doing actually reading, and comprehending, the article?

This. Is. Slashdot!

Those will still be in place as public urinals. They just won't have that occasional annoying ringing while you're in there now.

How the hell am I supposed to get out of the Matrix and back to the real world if they take away half the hardlines that tie into the matrix.

Even after Verizon starts advertising its network in the commercials preceding the film, there are plenty of handwaves that screenwriters can still use to move an idiot plot [wikipedia.org] forward:

• Out of minutes on a prepaid phone
• Parent confiscated cell phone for overage on a 24-month-plan phone
• Setting the movie in plain people country [wikipedia.org]
• Rural area with "no conexión" as they used to say in commercials for La Quinta Inn
• Cell phone jammer [methodshop.com]
• Foreigners with a GSM phone in a CDMA country or vice versa
• Cell phone confiscated by movie theater personnel after someone forgot to turn it off and it rang
• Cell phone confiscated by movie theater personnel for fear of using it as a camcorder
• People turned into zombies after being hypnotized by their cell phones [wikipedia.org]

Stripper pants