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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2020, 02:25:59 PM »
When I switched from (extremely unreliable, plus extremely slow) DSL to cable Internet, the cable company lobbied hard for me to get their phone service, too. They finally gave up when I pointed out that I have two landlines, one of which is a dedicated fax line. I asked flat out if they could guarantee that my fax machine would work with their phone system -- they couldn't, so I stayed with my land lines.

And I also will always keep at least one old-fashioned telephone on the land line. The problem with the new sets that have a base station/answering machine and several wireless handsets is that if the power goes off -- the phones don't work. With a "real" telephone, if the line is still up the phone works, even if there's no electricity.

I had my VOIP and Internet modems on a UPS and (and a phone that didn't need power) and I still usually lost telephone service when the power went out because the power was out somewhere on their end.  Every once in a while it worked.  So reliable phone service is not a priority for the cable company.  I put up with it because we have cell phones for backup.  I sometimes wonder if it's worth $20-ish a month to maintain my old phone number.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2020, 02:36:46 PM »
It's been cellphone only at our house for at least ten years, probably longer.  Even when our old cable TV plan included phone service, we did not use it.
I went so far as to rip out the old phone lines in this house when we bought it because they were of very low quality when they were originally installed and the lines were coming apart.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2020, 02:48:51 PM »
I've actually never paid for a land line and never felt the need to do so. If I lived where there was spotty cell service, the phone connects to WiFi and uses that just fine.

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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2020, 03:08:48 PM »
Just picked up a new Samsung S20 on the AT&T network.

Was with Verizon for almost 25 years.

Now that I'm working for AT&T I get far better plan for less money.

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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2020, 04:10:49 PM »
Just picked up a new Samsung S20 on the AT&T network.



S20? Man, am I out of the loop. What happened to S11-S19?  :laugh:
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #30 on: June 28, 2020, 04:22:02 PM »
Just picked up a new Samsung S20 on the AT&T network.

Was with Verizon for almost 25 years.

Now that I'm working for AT&T I get far better plan for less money.


So ... do you have a land line at home?
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2020, 07:16:55 AM »
So ... do you have a land line at home?

Covered that in a previous message.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2020, 10:03:16 AM »
Covered that in a previous message.

Oops.

Sorry.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #33 on: July 03, 2020, 10:45:03 PM »
I'm bringing this one back to add a new question: For those of you who don't have a land line at home ... do you have a home security system? If so, how does it work? Is it based on a cellular transmitter to the monitoring station, or ___?

Also, how many of those who have a land line have a home security system that's monitored over the phone line?
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2020, 08:39:38 AM »
I'm bringing this one back to add a new question: For those of you who don't have a land line at home ... do you have a home security system? If so, how does it work? Is it based on a cellular transmitter to the monitoring station, or ___?

Also, how many of those who have a land line have a home security system that's monitored over the phone line?

We had ADT (dropped because useless plus expensive as hell). It was over the Internet. I believe the newer security systems from companies like Ring and Simplisafe use the internet as well.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #35 on: July 04, 2020, 08:46:00 AM »
I'm bringing this one back to add a new question: For those of you who don't have a land line at home ... do you have a home security system? If so, how does it work? Is it based on a cellular transmitter to the monitoring station, or ___?

Also, how many of those who have a land line have a home security system that's monitored over the phone line?

My ADT system is over the internet with a cell (4G) backup.
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Re: Telephones -- Whatcha got?
« Reply #36 on: July 04, 2020, 09:01:24 AM »
Ring + Internet.
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