Robert Machin

Axiom Systems UK

Product Director

Seems to me the home phone will disappear organically as more of today's teenagers grow up with mobiles and won't see the value in installing a fixed phone when they eventually get their own property. In the meantime, people still value being able to call an address rather than an individual - this is obviously so for business, but to some extent it applies to domestic premises too. Friends and family who like to call (and remember) one number and don't mind who answers, for example. Having one number rather than several to give out to tradespeople and suppliers and so on. A phone which is permantly associated with an address (and permanently at that address) isn't dead yet.