Cell phones that have limited coverage areas aren't dependable. As long as you use your cell phone in a large city where there are plenty of cell phone towers it should work correctly. However, this isn't always the case, for there are plenty of ways the radio signals can be disturbed or blocked, especially if you are too far away from a tower. This means that, one of the cons of using a cell phone instead of a landline is, they are less dependable. Landline phones work everywhere, but cell phones don't. Owners of a house that has a metal roof will never replace their landline with a cell phone because the cell phone won't work inside their house. The metal seems to block the signals. Landline phones work everywhere, but cell phones have their limits. Cell phone batteries need kept charged up. If you forget to charge your cell phone battery and it runs down, your phone will operate poorly because the signal will be weak. You may not be able to make or receive calls. On the other hand, landline phones don't have this problem. Cell phones are easily lost, damaged, or even stolen. Being without a phone until you get a new one is another con of replacing your landline with a cell phone. Landlines aren't safe to use during lightning storms. According to snopes.com, people are injured and killed every year from talking on a wired landline phones during lightning storms. Cell phones are safer to use during electrical storms because there isn't a direct path connecting you and the lightning. Plus if you have cordless phones they won’t work if the power goes