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To: engineer who wrote (6866)	2/25/2000 12:19:00 AM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 13582

<< A good analogy is "how many phone outlets do you use in a normal weeks time". I'll bet it is a lot more than 10. >> When this sort of question comes up at my office, I ask people how many phones they have now? How many did they have ten or twenty years ago? Do they have any plans to do anything different downstream? In my home we have one cordless and three hard-wired telephones sharing two phone numbers. Then my wife and I each have cellular phones and pagers. In my wife's office, she has three phones, a modem, and a fax machine sharing three phone numbers. In my office, I have a direct extension, a fax line, and a modem line I use to remote manage security systems and share another line for the internet (hopefully, it will be upgraded from a 56k modem to DSL by Monday when I get back from vacation!) That adds up to seventeen devices using thirteen phone numbers (counting the shared ISP connection.) Twenty years ago, we had two phones sharing one line at home with no pagers, fax machines, or modems. My wife had one phone at the office which did not have a fax. I was a manufacturers' representative and my cellular phone was a CB radio. Ten years ago when we moved into this house, we wired it for four lines and activated three, since her office was at home, and I'd gotten rid of the CB. So, forgive me if I do not find it so strange that ten years from now we might use more and different wireless phones than we do today.