Zoned Out of Wireless: Why I Don't Use My Cellphone At Home

Americans are increasingly cutting the cord on their phones.   By the most recent estimates, 40 percent Americans  rely primarily on their wireless phone for voice calls, and most of those don't have a wireline phone at all.

 But don't count me in that number.   Its not that I wouldn't like to cut the cord.  It's that I can't.   I live in a cellular hole, one of those thousands of places where wireless connections are weak or non-existent.   The reason isn't geography – I live in a...