My dad can’t understand me well if I call on my cell phone. I have to call him on the landline. He’s the main reason I keep it, that and weak cell signal at the house. I did install a weboost that has helped some, but need to be upstairs.
My house is between 2 hills, and the towers are on either side.
No need to explain it to me. You gotta do what you gotta do to be able to talk to folks.
I was just reminiscing about how expensive and at the same time humorous long distance calls were back before cell phones.
The thing that really made me realize it was about 10 years ago, I was driving my wife, 2 kids, my in-laws, and 1 kid's boyfriend from Indiana to the Outer Banks. I was just sitting there in a comfortable seat, sailing down the highway at 70mph. We were somewhere in Tennessee, heading east, and my kid was talking to her cousin, who was somewhere else in another car on a different highway heading west, returning to Indiana from a vacation on the Maryland shore. All of the plans were unlimited long distance, text and data. They talked for well over an hour. Lost the signal a few times, but they'd just call back.
As I was driving, I was recalling the 60s and 70s passing the corded wall phone around from sibling to sibling as fast as we could to say Merry Christmas to the grandparents before we had to hang up due to the expense. I just smiled and shook my head at how kids of today take things like this for granted VS people that saw the technology develop.
I also remember that long distance calls were often very crackly and it was sometimes impossible to hear the other person clearly.
Today's cell phone calls also don't always have the clearest connection, and, due to it being digital, sounds flat and artificial VS analog phone lines. But more times than not, just hanging up and redialing resolves the cell connection and sound quality, although the flatness will never go away.
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