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Landline phones are a dying breed
beneteau
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About to get rid of ours. Too many robo calls and scams. Since I can keep DSL, the house phone is leaving. Will save about $60 a month which will pay for our cellphones.
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Phone booths are near impossible to find anymore and they used to be located in stores, malls, street corners, airports, etc.
The phone books have become smaller and thinner. No long can you find the phone number/address of an old friend that you know lives in whatever town you happen to be passing thru.
Are cell phones really less expensive than a landline?
$700 for a cell phone and $100 a month for service ..
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I'm paying $48 a month (no contract) for unlimited talk and text for 2 cellphones. AT&T network.
AT&T coverage sucks nationwide.
Check their map.
I did before I went with the company offering the service. I've never had a problem.
quote:Originally posted by us55840
Phone booths are near impossible to find anymore and they used to be located in stores, malls, street corners, airports, etc.
The phone books have become smaller and thinner. No long can you find the phone number/address of an old friend that you know lives in whatever town you happen to be passing thru.
Are cell phones really less expensive than a landline?
$700 for a cell phone and $100 a month for service ..
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I'm paying $48 a month (no contract) for unlimited talk and text for 2 cellphones. AT&T network.
do you have a link to this deal ?
i pay 200.00 for 4 phones now
quote:Originally posted by beneteau
quote:Originally posted by us55840
Phone booths are near impossible to find anymore and they used to be located in stores, malls, street corners, airports, etc.
The phone books have become smaller and thinner. No long can you find the phone number/address of an old friend that you know lives in whatever town you happen to be passing thru.
Are cell phones really less expensive than a landline?
$700 for a cell phone and $100 a month for service ..
[?][?][?]
I'm paying $48 a month (no contract) for unlimited talk and text for 2 cellphones. AT&T network.
do you have a link to this deal ?
i pay 200.00 for 4 phones now
Pure Talk
Cell phone makes so much simpler, plus we don't have to pay long distance charges.
It was bundled with our satellite dish.
They told me it would cost me $5 more if I didn't keep my land line.
They didn't include all the taxes and fees that are added on every month.
There is a lot of FAX software available if I need to send one.
Land lines are like the telegraph, past their time.
Land lines are good if you need a fax machine. That's all.
My "land line" is via internet and the phone number is FREE, forever? from Google Voice. This "main" number can be used just like a "normal" landline. Could have selected almost any "area code". Use a texas area code,, but could have been Maine or?.
Have internet anyway, no matter where I go. Thus,, my "land line" number is good anywhere in the world if I can plug into internet. My Google landline can be "programmed' to ring any phone, anywhere in the world,, or NOT ring certain phones. Including my cell phone.
There are services that make it easy to fax a pdf file. Use them all the time,, plus other services that convert text, word document etc, into a pdf file. No fax machine needed, someone who sends or receives lots of faxes should have one. Maybe not?
My new Canon printer (in the US) has a fax "built in" and it's connected to my internet landline.
You called me from MY phone number![:0]
I will be the first to admit that I still maintain a land line phone.
I do not consider myself important enough to need a 24 hour a day phone at my side everywhere I go.
IMO, folks have become slaves to their cell phones.
I enjoy my freedom too much to always be connected to the outside world.
Land lines are good if you need a fax machine. That's all.
Or after a hurricane. Unless your phone lines are lying on the ground beside the electric. The phone lines are on a separate (DC) power source.
quote:Originally posted by jerrywh818
Land lines are good if you need a fax machine. That's all.
Or after a hurricane. Unless your phone lines are lying on the ground beside the electric. The phone lines are on a separate (DC) power source.
Yep. My friend the telecom dude says to keep a landline because in the event of a significant event cell towers are the most vulnerable link. Far more fragile than the relatively 'No-Tech' of the landline.
StraightTalk uses Verizon towers, which seem to be the best and most reliable - and which are the only ones available where I live in Northeastern AZ. I've never had any connection problems anywhere with StraightTalk.
We live in a rural area, every big rain that would come through, or every driver that lost focus and hit the road side phone box, would take out our service for two days. Got "real" old in a short time.
Cell phone makes so much simpler, plus we don't have to pay long distance charges.
Can't be to RURAL if you get cell service every where you go and can drop your land line.
Only reason I keep the Land Line is I am in a Cell Phone dead zone.
Same here. I have a really ancient cell phone that works OK most of the time in my house, but my wife has tried three or four different cell phones and services and has yet to find one that she can use in the house. She has to go outside to make calls. We live in a wooded river valley, and the signals seem to go right over the top of us. (Same with TV signals, but that's a topic for another thread.)
Sounds like the same group who have no need for USPS since they do everything "online". Must be a "chitty thing" versus a "rural thing".
"Yep. Keeping a landline is an added expense that I have found to be unnecessary."
Sounds like the same group who have no need for USPS since they do everything "online". Must be a "chitty thing" versus a "rural thing".
I don't have a need for the land line, but I use the USPS a lot.
Then, next to it you will see where there used to be ten pay phones, but all the rest have been removed.
About once a year I see a driver using the pay phone, the old land line. Mostly the old pay phone just gathers dust.
Just imagine thirty years ago, before a driver went out on the road he got $40 worth of quarters at the bank.
You would have had guys lined up at those pay phones at 8pm, calling dispatch, then calling their wives, then calling their girlfriends.
In the new truck stops, no pay phones. Gone With the Wind.
Check out Ooma http://www.ooma.com/
$700 for a cell phone and $100 a month for service ..
When I retired 2 years ago I turned in my company Android and I paid $18.95 for my cell phone that I carry now. I don't need a smart phone any more, this flip phone does all I need which is to make a call occasionally when I need to. Anybody that pays $700 for a phone...well as they say a fool and his money are soon parted.
We employ a VoIP "Land Line" for a grand sum of $3.49 /month
Check out Ooma http://www.ooma.com/
^^^This^^^
Cell phones do not work at home. (mountain valley)
I took the installed cell phones out of the truck and car and the landline from the house and bought two flip phones. I called Sprint and told them I was no longer a customer.
A couple of days later I noticed a stranger lurking around the corner of my house so I wished him a good morning and asked him what he was doing. He said he would have my phone service restored shortly. I told him to take his time because I wasn't a Sprint customer.
I guess the lady at Sprint thought I was bluffing because she called me to tell me she was billing me $50.00 for the equipment they replaced if I was serious about cancelling my service. I told her to put any number on the bill that made her happy; I'd just as soon not pay her $1,000.00 as not pay her $50.00. Next billing cycle they gave me a refund of a couple dollars.
I haven't missed the landline.