phone 'land lines'- any benefits to keeping them?
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reefer buddy
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I love my land line so much so that I am the only person I know that doesn't have a cell phone! thats right I have no cell phone. I love not being available all the time. I have voice mail if you need me leave a message if not it was not that important. Besides when did we all get so important that we need that much availability? You are NOT that important, sorry.
In my opinion, having a cell phone now for 10 plus years, I would still want a landline for emergency purposes only. Kind of like a disaster device where no one else has one in the rubble but me and then I would have to sell the use of my landline because, since there's no power, everyone's cell phone batteries are dead.
Cell phone for everything, landline for back up only.
I will add another story to the bogging of cellular networks. At several Dave Matthews concerts and other large concerts I have been to, cell service is incredibly slow and often times non-existent because of the amount of people in one spot bouncing data and calls off of one or a few local towers.
Scenario: Disaster locally of some sort and you have 20,000 people gathered together for the purposes of survival all trying to use their cell phone simultaneously crushing the network. It's like having too many computers donwloading from the same connection. There's only a certain amount of bandwidth available at any given time and once that threshold is reached, we are out of luck.
Cell phone for everything, landline for back up only.
I will add another story to the bogging of cellular networks. At several Dave Matthews concerts and other large concerts I have been to, cell service is incredibly slow and often times non-existent because of the amount of people in one spot bouncing data and calls off of one or a few local towers.
Scenario: Disaster locally of some sort and you have 20,000 people gathered together for the purposes of survival all trying to use their cell phone simultaneously crushing the network. It's like having too many computers donwloading from the same connection. There's only a certain amount of bandwidth available at any given time and once that threshold is reached, we are out of luck.
truebeliever71
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IronMan72
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During an October snow storm in Buffalo a few years ago my power, phone and cable lines were all taken out - for 10 long days. My POTS line was completely useless. My cell phone worked flawlessly. Fortunately I didn't have an emergency and didn't need any of them.
It occurs to me that no matter how prepared you are for an emergency, Murphy will come along and guarantee that the one thing you need the most isn't available.
It occurs to me that no matter how prepared you are for an emergency, Murphy will come along and guarantee that the one thing you need the most isn't available.
Conesus_Kid
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For quite a while we had metered calling, where we paid around $12/month. All incoming calls were free, outgoing calls were like $.25/minute. We just used our cell phones for any outgoing calls we made and still had the landline.
The only reason I ended up getting rid of it was that we lost service every time it rained and after several visits from Frontier techs, none of them could figure it out.
If you're concerned about keeping that particular phone number, you could transfer it to a cheapie cell phone and pay the $10/month for the additional cell line. (That's what we ended up doing. We have our "home" cell phone on the counter and a couple of cordless phones that attach to it w/ Bluetooth.)
The only reason I ended up getting rid of it was that we lost service every time it rained and after several visits from Frontier techs, none of them could figure it out.
If you're concerned about keeping that particular phone number, you could transfer it to a cheapie cell phone and pay the $10/month for the additional cell line. (That's what we ended up doing. We have our "home" cell phone on the counter and a couple of cordless phones that attach to it w/ Bluetooth.)
naprestsleep
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Like said before for emergencies its better, as its self powered your phone will work without house power, IF you keep a wired phone around. I really never had one since my last college apt so I live without it but I recommend keeping it if you got it and stripping down the package.
acdraindrps
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When I lose my cell phone in my apt I use my land line to call and locate my cell. That's the only time I use it. I couldn't even tell you the number to my land line.
belgian_waffleman
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I have a Verizon DSL line without phone service. We use internet phone service(ITP) and have a pay as go cell phone. By far the cheapest combo imo. Especially with the amount of international calling we do.
Waffleman
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