How many still have a Landline in their home?

[90cummins]

Still have it in case shtf.
90cummins

 

[bmaverick]

Common title. Do you recall the author ?

Rgds, D.

Lights Out
By Halffast (David Crawford)

https://www.giltweasel.com/stuff/LightsOut-Current.pdf

 

[OzarkChris]

We still have a landline because there isn't cell coverage here (and "sat" phones are way to expensive). I have our internet piped outside(wireless repeaters), but still have many dead spots.

 

[bmaverick]

Common title. Do you recall the author ?

Rgds, D.

And the most notable, Unintended Consequences by John Rose

https://www.giltweasel.com/stuff/Unintended_Consequences.pdf

 

[JasperFrank]

Land line phone is tied to the DSL, and "broadband," is through Century Link, and this is getting expensive, at 115 a month. Yet we do use what limited speed we have to the max. We don't use smart phones, just tracfones for cell and the landline. Cell coverage went out for three days during the last Ice storm. The Land Line was fine. We will need to figure something else. Century Link, me thinks is trying to wean people off DSL and will not even run lines to some of the newer houses up our hill. I should get bold with CL and say this is a bit much, yet we are entirely dependent on the DSL for work, and I don't have an alternative to back me up as in "I'm going to your competitor X" . Neighbors are all on different solutions. Some dish, some Spectrum, some are purely with their smart phones and very expensive Cell Data plans. We are not line of sight to the local tower, so at best we get 2 bars.

 

[grsthegreat]

You could get starlink for about what your paying.

 

[JasperFrank]

Everyone in this conversation should state what they are paying per month.

 

[Grumpycat]

In late 2018 buying when contemplating buying a big chunk of land I was very happy to find 3 bars of cell coverage on most of the property. Bought it.

 

[LouNY]

Dropped my land line many years ago because of the dismal quality of service. 50 year old buried cabling tied in with even older overhead lines. Verizon supposedly had to provide fax quality service and it got so that would only work 5 days out of a month after repeated calls. They have not upgraded any copper lines in decades.

 

[Grumpycat]

No Cell service here so land line it is. Still waiting for TelCo to pull fiber the last 1/4 mile to my place.

I was shocked in November to find Google Fiber had been pulled nearly to my new homesite.