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Most of these people (and I'm probably in the demographic, though I haven't yet made the leap to VoIP-only) probably would prefer to "stick to e-mail". But the world still forces us to have telephones. Why should we be forced to pay for voice plans we rarely (and grudgingly) use, and subsidize all you bluetooth-adorned yackers in the process?

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It's their own choice to stick to e-mail, that's a seperate discussion as not using a phone would definitely affect you in this society.

My point is that using VoIP may be cheaper, but it is of vastly inferior quality and will annoy the person you're talking to. If you only use voice once in a while buy a bunch of minutes, you're not subsidizing anyone as the network wouldn't have been built without voice, so one could argue the voice users are subsidizing YOU.

> If you only use voice once in a while buy a bunch of minutes

Maybe you could explain that more? Smartphone data plans and prepaid minute phones don't overlap... are you suggesting we carry two phones?

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