Rural Infrastructure thread

[Torvy]

Mom (93.5) dropped the land line in the last 2 years since dad died. He had very bad hearing and they used the flashing light ringer.

 

[lman]

Used to have CenturyLink copper/dsl then electric co-op buried fiber to the house. They have a voip option but use my cell phone and wifi calling so no need for landline. CenturyLink removed box down the road so it is no longer available.

 

[paulsharvey]

We still have 2 landlines, one in the house and one in the stained-glass shop. Mainly for fax use, some government agencies still require fax rather than email. Although our last communications with the USDA will now let us scan and email documents. Both go to voicemail as any incoming calls are mostly spam. It is nice to have a number to give some vendors, other than our cell phones, when we don't want to be bothered by their phone calls.

Yeah, Fax is a weird thing, only used for Very limited stuff, but still used. I haven't done an FFL transfer in several years, but they all refused to do it any other way.