getting rid of landline

[tvguy]

Caller id allows you to determine who you speak to.

Like I said, too many people I deal with have their outgoing called ID blocked so that feature is useless.


I'm delighted to receive mostly texts on my phone. And can communicate only when and with those I want to.

LAST THING I WANT IS AN UNIMPORTANT TEXT WHILE I AM SLEEPING OR DRIVING. THOSE FOLKS CAN ALL CALL THE LANDLINE.

 

[Southernmiss]

LAST THING I WANT IS AN UNIMPORTANT TEXT WHILE I AM SLEEPING OR DRIVING. THOSE FOLKS CAN ALL CALL THE LANDLINE.

YOU DON'T LOOK AT YOUR PHONE WHEN SLEEPING OR DRIVING. PROBLEM SOLVED!!

You can tell your phone how to alert you or not alert you for texts. You can have an audible noise, a vibration or no alert at all.

I don't get unwanted texts while sleeping. Most people who text me are sensible about not texting at all hours.

As stated before, the phone is put on do not disturb and only IMPORTANT messages buzz through.

Goodness tvguy, must you be so grumpy all the time?

 

[Southernmiss]

Exactly my point. My cell phone is for my family and I answer 24/7. My landline is for everyone else and can have the ringer turned off and the answer machine volume down when I am asleep.

And what we are telling you is that you can do the same with a cell phone.

 

[tvguy]

And what we are telling you is that you can do the same with a cell phone.

. Most of the features you describe on a cell phone do not work if the person calling had their ID blocked.

 

[arminnie]

I am an old person - a very old person - I have not had a land line in years and years.

My DH and I have two homes plus we travel a lot. I love having my phone with me - not at some fixed location. I love that my DH and I have our own separate numbers. He does not have to deal with the people who call me nor do I have to deal with the people who call him.

Caller ID on a cell is automatic - the land line provider wanted almost $10 a month. I don't answer any calls that I don't recognize - but I do listen to any voice mails that are longer than 2 seconds.

I can't think of a single reason why I would want to have a land line.

 

[tvguy]

I am an old person - a very old person - I have not had a land line in years and years.

My DH and I have two homes plus we travel a lot. I love having my phone with me - not at some fixed location. I love that my DH and I have our own separate numbers. He does not have to deal with the people who call me nor do I have to deal with the people who call him.

Caller ID on a cell is automatic - the land line provider wanted almost $10 a month. I don't answer any calls that I don't recognize - but I do listen to any voice mails that are longer than 2 seconds.

I can't think of a single reason why I would want to have a land line.

I have no issue with that. My issue is having a phone ringing while I am sleeping because of the crazy work hours I have had the last 37 years. I have 2 lines, one landline and one cell. The landline is the number I give out, the cellphone is the one only DW, DS, DD, DB and DMIL have.

 

[focusondisney]

True, doesn't have to be a landline. Just one phone NUMBER that only is given out to family, and another to everyone else. But as others have mentioned, a landline is never going to have a dead battery, and while landlines do go down, not as frequently as cell towers especially in a power outage.. In my case, I got my cell phone (they were know as CAR phones in 1990 when I got it) as an emergency line for people who had to get a hold of me while I was asleep during the day. I could turn the ringer off on the landline, and the answering machine volume down, and all those non-urgent calls go there. People could feel free to call me without concern of waking me up.
My sleep would be disturbed with just one line if I had to check to make sure a call wasn't an emergency

I bolded your comment on the landline never having a dead battery. We still have a landline. Verizon is upgrading all their lines here to fiber optic lines from the old copper line. People who have Verizon Fios for their cable service already had this done but we only have Verizon for our landline, so still had copper lines. We were required to get updated by late December or lose our phone service.

Guess what?? After the upgrade to fiber optic lines, your phone will NOT work during a power outage! Unless you have a battery backup installed. So we had to have that installed too. One of the biggest reasons we keep the landlord is to be able to use the phone during a power outage. The back up system requires 12 (!!) D batteries.

 

[tvguy]

I bolded your comment on the landline never having a dead battery. We still have a landline. Verizon is upgrading all their lines here to fiber optic lines from the old copper line. People who have Verizon Fios for their cable service already had this done but we only have Verizon for our landline, so still had copper lines. We were required to get updated by late December or lose our phone service.

Guess what?? After the upgrade to fiber optic lines, your phone will NOT work during a power outage! Unless you have a battery backup installed. So we had to have that installed too. One of the biggest reasons we keep the landlord is to be able to use the phone during a power outage. The back up system requires 12 (!!) D batteries.

Interesting. Verizon is cellular only here. Landline is ATT.

 

[capegirl]

I bolded your comment on the landline never having a dead battery. We still have a landline. Verizon is upgrading all their lines here to fiber optic lines from the old copper line. People who have Verizon Fios for their cable service already had this done but we only have Verizon for our landline, so still had copper lines. We were required to get updated by late December or lose our phone service.

Guess what?? After the upgrade to fiber optic lines, your phone will NOT work during a power outage! Unless you have a battery backup installed. So we had to have that installed too. One of the biggest reasons we keep the landlord is to be able to use the phone during a power outage. The back up system requires 12 (!!) D batteries.

Good grief....I guess this is a coming attraction of what we can expect when Verizon Fios rolls into our town. We are in a rural area, and still have the copper lines for our Verizon landline. UGH!

 

[bonoriffic]

I am working on next generation 9-1-1. Unless you can calmly and accurately describe your location, you should assume 9-1-1 is not going to find you with a cell phone. That is today. Next Gen 9-1-1 is working to solve that. We are years from that being a reality across the country. Disconnected land lines don't work with 9-1-1. The phone company has to provide power to your phone, and while it may for a brief period after you disconnect, they eventually will stop.

If you want to test out 9-1-1 for any setup you may have, just do it. I'd suggest not doing it during the morning and evening rush hours as that is when they are busiest. Just say you are testing your 9-1-1 connectivity. What location do they have for you. Be polite and quick, they won't care that you called. Go to youtube and search on John Oliver 911 if you want to see the state of 9-1-1 in the US.

 

[Shughart]

This was a fun thread to read. I was in college when cell phones started getting smart, and when my boyfriend (now husband) and I moved in together, we had cell phones, never land line. That was 12 years ago. We've never had a landline and never had a need for one. Cell phones are so much easier. Our kids are getting older now, so we bought a boost mobile phone to sit in as a 'home phone' that way they can reach us if we're not home and they need to call us or 911. All this talk about how phones always die and you miss an alarm, what? Doesn't everyone know to plug their phone in when they go to bed

 

[tvguy]

This was a fun thread to read. I was in college when cell phones started getting smart, and when my boyfriend (now husband) and I moved in together, we had cell phones, never land line. That was 12 years ago. We've never had a landline and never had a need for one. Cell phones are so much easier. Our kids are getting older now, so we bought a boost mobile phone to sit in as a 'home phone' that way they can reach us if we're not home and they need to call us or 911. All this talk about how phones always die and you miss an alarm, what? Doesn't everyone know to plug their phone in when they go to bed

LOL. I am at work. Just called a co-worker who overslept because she had a dead cell phone which is her alarm clock. Thank goodness she has a LANDLINE too. Actually, I think it is a VOIP, but it woke her up! Full disclosure, I go to work at 3 am, and our shifts start at 3 AM , 330AM and 4 am. I agree with you, "how hard is it to plug their phone in when they go to bed?". For me, not hard. For the 1 person of 20 that work this schedule that have this issue every week, apparently hard than you would think.

 

[kymom99]

LOL. I am at work. Just called a co-worker who overslept because she had a dead cell phone which is her alarm clock. Thank goodness she has a LANDLINE too. Actually, I think it is a VOIP, but it woke her up! Full disclosure, I go to work at 3 am, and our shifts start at 3 AM , 330AM and 4 am. I agree with you, "how hard is it to plug their phone in when they go to bed?". For me, not hard. For the 1 person of 20 that work this schedule that have this issue every week, apparently hard than you would think.

Quit being dad to your coworkers. That's ridiculous. If they get written up they will get up.

 

[tvguy]

Quit being dad to your coworkers. That's ridiculous. If they get written up they will get up.

If I don't play dad I get written up.

 

[DrummerBoy523]

Got an OOMA. Ported our number. Haven't looked back. Been 3 years.