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Old 09-08-2020, 09:41 PM
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We have plug in wired land lines with Comcast $8.95/month unlimited calling and a bunch of features.
There are two types of "landlines". The old fashioned landline is an analog wire that comes into your house through a low voltage wire, not through a COAX cable. The "landline" service sold by Comcast and other cable companies is not that type of service. The Comcast service is a digital service that comes into your house through the Comcast COAX cable and connects to a modem. You can connect a regular analog phone wire from the modem to a phone jack in your house, which will power all of the phone jacks in your house. But, it is not a true analog landline. Comcast does not offer a landline service powered by the analog wires that come into your house. If you want a true old fashioned analog landline, you need to buy it from another phone service provider, not a cable company.