Are you still using a land line ?

[k0ua]

Same here, keep a couple of old 2500 series and one old 2554 in the shop for just that puprose. The portable base in on a UPS, with the rest of the network equipment, but it just runs for so long, and it is by by phones. (and data network too)

James K0UA

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

They are vile contraptions. I hate them.

Right there with you!

 

[mostly_gas]

Land line with 2 portables and one hardwired. We both have cell but granddaughter on wife's plan she runs close every month. On cable, 15M usually get much more, tested as high as 28. DSL has been a very mixed bag in my area.

 

[Alan L.]

Yep no cell service at the house still got dial up Internet too.

You musta started this post yesterday.

 

[ultrarunner]

You musta started this post yesterday.

I live in a city of 400k and cell coverage sucks... can't get a signal when I'm in my own back 40...

The thing with Land-line is the costs keep escalating...especially with all the fees and taxes.

Many 30 and under people I know have never had a land line...

15 years ago the telephone company had to run new underground... people were waiting a year of more to add a line due to no more capacity...

DSL is also a problem... has gotten a little better. Just too far from the central station not as the crow flies... just the way the cable is routed.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I just killed my land line 2 months ago...
I used DSL for 3 or 4 years...
Did not have cable option for service...
Cell reception is acceptable but not great...
Reception was non existent years ago but has improved so that we could stop the land line...
Right now we are saving $78/mo...
After the first year those savings will drop to $63/mo...
So far I am very happy with the results...

 

[ghenges]

The telephone is the most obtrusive/intrusive uniquely invasive
convenience/annoyance device ever invented.

The worst result of moderate to high cellphone use -- the constant disruption has inhibited the intellectual processes of the brain.
Thinking and pondering have given way to short bursts of seemingly important trivial incoming and outgoing truncated communication.
The old fashioned term scatterbrain may have found renewed relevance
Utterly pernicious cellphones -- read this -- several times

A contractor I worked for in the nineties, brought a cellphone out to the job for me to use for business and also my personal use.
I refused.
The contractor was bemused.
I said it was a "dog collar", a device with which he could jerk my chain any time he saw fit.
I told him I would call him when I needed tools, material or job information not included in the plans or in the specifications. If he needed me, he could call the landline in the job trailer and leave a message.
I employed what I termed "linear thinking" when I was on my way to work and at work.
"Linear thinking" involved a plan for the day's work, usually conceived during the hour or so drive to the jobsite. Never, ever thought about the job at home. The day's work was mentally laid out and made no provision for distracting and interruptive cellphone calls.


Landline = Vonage VOIP with a call blocker.

CellPhone = Virgin Mobile w/ $6.67 charge per month.
Primarily for emergency use and on trips, phone is never turned on at home.
$20.00 charge per quarter has resulted over the years in a +$487.00 account balance, testament to just how little it has been used.

 

[lutt]

No land line for 8 yrs here,internet thru air card and smartphones via wi fi hotspot. Thinking of trying internet thru dish and dropping the air card. LUTT

 

[JDgreen227]

No land line for 8 yrs here,internet thru air card and smartphones via wi fi hotspot. Thinking of trying internet thru dish and dropping the air card. LUTT

Lutt...I tried Internet thru my Directv dish and it was really slow, no improvement whatsoever over a landline with DSL, and I live on the very fringe of DSL service. That is my only real issue with living in a rural area, being saddled with slow Internet access and I HAVE to pay for a landline although I never use it (hearing loss) for voice calls. Cell service via Verizon is also only fair. Three miles directly west of me my Droid has a full 4 bars of 4G coverage...here I barely have half a bar at most. SUCKS !!!

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

no land line anymore , Rarely carry the cell usally in the tuck and I check it once in a while, Funny when I'm at the property on top of the ridge it shows eastern time zone time and on the bottom of the ridge it shows central time zone , if i'm ever late to meet someone I move to the bottom and gain an hr :laughing: