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[geoguy]

We still have a landline due to sketchy cell-phone signal strength.

But we also have a service called NoMoRoBo ("no more robo") that screens robo calls. All we'll hear is one ring . . . if the service determines it is a robo call or known phone scammer, it is immediately disconnected. All we ever hear is the one ring (although the number calling in is displayed on the TV set, if it happens to be turned on).

Works for us.

 

[Coop47]

Because it still works even when the power's out and you can't recharge your "smart" phone....plus you can screen calls on the answering machine in case you're right in the middle of a delicate cooking maneuver, for instance.

We took care of my mother-in-law for about 10 years, and I kept the landline in case we ever needed to call an ambulance, but since she passed in Oct, we may evaluate...

 

[adorshki]

We still have a landline due to sketchy cell-phone signal strength.

Yeah, my first comment about power outage was tongue-in cheek. The real reason I keep landline is because I never wanted or had genuine need for either cell or smart phone and still don't have a smart phone.

To me smartphones epitomize everything I hate about dysfunctional design: As the video element became more important than the audio portion, and the phones got smaller and smaller, so did the speakers and mics, leading to atrocious audio quality even before signal strength issues are considered.

Then there's the ridiculous counter-ergonomic keyboards to enable texting.

It's a technological swiss army knife now and doesn't accomplish any one task very well at all.

Do you really wanna get me started on how smart phones simply evolved into a means of helping people spend more money and paying for the tool that facilitates it, besides? With built-in periodic obsolescence that keeps you forever under the sway of a service provider?

I refuse to voluntarily comply.

 

[davismanLV]

Well, Al is fully and cantankerously back!!!

 

[Opsimath]

I have a landline. It is always unplugged, but when at a checkout counter and they ask for my phone number they get the landline number since I absolutely refuse to give my cell number to random businesses. The phone and internet are a package deal and getting rid of the phone won't save much. In the meantime I don't have to argue with a sales clerk about why they do or do not need my phone number. I just give them the one that's not plugged in and we go about our merry way. However, when I want to make a call I prefer the landline. The phone itself is more comfortable to hold, and as Al pointed out, the sound quality seems to be a lot better, too.

It's good to have options.

Oh, and in keeping with the thread, I don't answer any phone number that I don't recognize, and sometimes I don't answer the ones I do recognize.

 

[adorshki]

Well, Al is fully and cantankerously back!!!

It's still coffee time. After beer it gets even better.

AT&T is the evil empire.

After Microsoft and McDonald's.

 

[walrus]

I got rid of our landline about 6 month ago. Finally. I was keeping it because we had an alarm system connected to to it, but literally no one called that number except junk calls, which were getting worse and worse. Saving $50 a month.

Like Opsimath, I give out my office number if a business (or whatever) has to have one. I never get calls on that number, I only get contacted by email by my students. It hasn't rang in years, literally. And if it does, I get an email about it.

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

Yeah, my first comment about power outage was tongue-in cheek. The real reason I keep landline is because I never wanted or had genuine need for either cell or smart phone and still don't have a smart phone.

To me smartphones epitomize everything I hate about dysfunctional design: As the video element became more important than the audio portion, and the phones got smaller and smaller, so did the speakers and mics, leading to atrocious audio quality even before signal strength issues are considered.

Then there's the ridiculous counter-ergonomic keyboards to enable texting.

It's a technological swiss army knife now and doesn't accomplish any one task very well at all.

Do you really wanna get me started on how smart phones simply evolved into a means of helping people spend more money and paying for the tool that facilitates it, besides? With built-in periodic obsolescence that keeps you forever under the sway of a service provider?

I refuse to voluntarily comply.

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[davismanLV]

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[adorshki]

Perfect for Al!!!

But does it have a corkscrew? What about the fish scaler? And a spare toothpick. Gotta have a spare, they always get lost.

 

[walrus]

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walrus

 

[F312]

How else are we going to know where everyone is.

Ralph

 

[Nuuska]

Without smartphone - what would we use those super nice Thalia cellphone covers for?