How about we have some down time. The tap must be physically attached to the phone wire on a landline. So I had to drive to town to get the ambulance. A cell phone would have helped me in this situation — a man at the post office said his was working.

Reasons to have or keep a landline: 1. Emergency in event of power outage 2. Emergency calls 3. Security alarm systems break-ins, fire, etc. Business land lines absolutely necessary. I have no landline and cable internet as I write this. When I had my business a few years ago, I had a similar situation with my business phone service and DSL. When I closed my business, I no longer needed a landline. My cell phone is my sole phone and it works out fine.

Internet Disconnection Test

Landlines or POTS Plain Old Telephone Service works when the power goes out due to the fact that most electricity outages are not due to the lines being down but switching gear or transformers on the blink. The telephone offices have battery backup as well. A good old fashioned telephone is not quite a dinosaur yet. It does have a rather reptilian aire, though. We will still have the poles and wiring bringing us cable TV and Electricity and hopefully some more fiber optics.

Some enterprising new companies may find that they can re-create the POTS business in a new way that will encourage people to reconnect. If too many people leave the system, costs for businesses will escalate into the stratosphere. The only way I call international on my cell is with a calling card.

For some strange reason, all of the cell providers have usurious tariffs for calling overseas. If I was calling overseas more, it might make sense to get a landline again. Going without a landline these days is a definite option. One just has to have some backup in place so they never get caught with a dead phone. My solution is a solar charging battery pack that will power and recharge my phone. If the phone is completely dead, I have to wait minutes, but I try not to run the battery all the way flat. I also have a second battery that I can pop in.

Sorry iPhone users, no replaceable battery.

I usually only go out weekends with my kids and grandkids. Sometimes I spend several hours at a time on the phone. My landline has much better reception and there are never any dropped calls. Cell phones are mostly small and annoying to talk on and some get really hot after a short time. Occasionally I will have to throw an extra ten on it but it works out much better for me.

Live in rural Virgina and am keeping my landline after a electric storm knocked out my tower for 3 weeks and that gave me no internet or phone. I have the cheap Verizon landline plan — but what kicks up the cost are the fees and taxes which are as much as the landline cost. Oh, as a side note: getting service on a landline problem is difficult because Verizon makes all it money on the wireless business and could care less about its landline customers.

I was really livid with them! They were insisting that I was behind a month on my bill and I knew for a fact that I was definitely not! It works great and my worry about going over my 7. I still have 3.

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They also have started a nice addition to their program. Free Sat from midnight till 5 AM seven days a week! For we out in the boonies this is a great deal, though, I know it is a joke if you are on cable or DSL.

Getting Rid of Your Landline: When to Cut the Cord

Ahem, that changed after they got me rooked into their web of deceit. Well, screw me over again! In order to save any money, I had to switch my land line service to essentially an emergency outgoing service. Otherwise I would have to buy my own modem. I also use a pay-as-you-go Virgin Mobile cell phone for emergencies. I do not own a cell phone. The government or anyone can track you wherever you go if you carry a cell phone! I will keep my land line! Remember how little text messages used to cost practically nothing and check out the insane prices now.

The maintenance cost of land lines has been steadily increasing, in order to get us all to switch over to cell phones and then they can jack-up the prices of cell phones some more, introducing new technologies, faster internet, useless touch screens with time-wasting games and unneeded social sites.

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Have a picnic, play some soccer, football outside with your friends; as opposed to waving a plastic controller in the living room lmao. Give us back cheap communication, now! Workers are getting laid off, everything is done by machines — but instead of getting cheaper, we pay more and more! No sense in it, no reason. I own the mobile. Calls are extra and I own the phone. How are mobile prices rocketing? If you have your Ooma hooked up to your land line, then whenever the power goes out, you can still call If your land line is still active then you can use that as a second line.

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After that your best bet is to contact ATT. Be careful, though, as they will do everything in their power to keep you with them. I returned the Magicjack. Seemed like a lot of trouble, but you would save a lot of money. Oh well not ticking of my wife is worth the extra money! Gotta keep the peace! I just bought MagicJack. Can anyone tell me how to handle the ATT billing?

Any input would be appreciated. Between Excede and my Cell I will be just fine. I need to change my yr landline number because I am barraged by telemarketers because I once 10 years ago for ONE year had a business in my home. I cannot get rid of references to that defunct business on the Web because there are so many sites posting every business ever registered anywhere. Friends tell me to get rid of the landline, but I would feel insecure without it. I also need a landline for occasional faxing.

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The home answering machine serves an essential purpose taking automated messages about doctor appointments and so forth. And it lets friends and families call at any time without worrying about bothering me. Viva la landline! Especially if you have a job that requires you to have a phone. Which is another thing, payphones are becoming more and more scarce due to entitlement programs giving people a free cell phone, making it harder and harder for payphones to be profitable.

Okeechobee stinks, expecially in ft drum. I now have DSL stand alone. Wow you peeps get good deals!! Wireless is not available in my area so I have no choice but to have the home phone.. In the city the same company is offering the same deal with unlimited called to landlines, mobiles etc for half price. They say that Austrailia is behind in internet and telelephony technology that we are paying more then the many countries for slower services etc..

This does not include any added taxes or fees. These phones share minutes of anytime usage. Two of the phones are talk only and one phone has unlimited texting. None of the phone has data service. This includes all taxes and fees added by the government. For that price I get unlimited local and long distance plus caller ID, call waiting, and five other services.

That price also includes my DSL line which is the fastest one offered in my area. Until then, my cell phone is for use only when outside the house.