[stan the man]

love your acronym POTS nice FI

[newgirl]

I would love to find a way to do this! I hate talking on my cell, miss how comfortable talking with the old fashion handle .

[Brent]

Of course you need gas for the car for that to work.

[coconutmama]

Originally Posted by JoMar

We have a landline through Spectrum along with internet and cable package. Just find it easier to talk on a regular phone than a cell phone. Personal preference. Spectrum also has nomorobo included so telemarketing calls are greatly reduced.

We do too, for these reasons & 911 accuracy. Also it is easier to read the ID of a caller on our television as we only give out the landline # to businesses.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by newgirl

I would love to find a way to do this! I hate talking on my cell, miss how comfortable talking with the old fashion handle .

Amazon has several devices that will do what you want. I don't know which one to buy or how well they work. But, they do get good reviews.

[retiredguy123]

If you have the Xfinity Mobile cell phone service and landline, you could replace your Xfinity landline service with an extra cell phone for a very low monthly fee, probably less than the cost of the landline. If you kept the extra cell phone in your house, you wouldn't need to use any data because it would always be connected to the WiFi network. Also, it would serve as a temporary replacement if you lose your other cell phone.

[davem4616]

I still do some consulting work...so I have a land line for my business number...however it's not the plug in type, it's included in the Comcast bundle. When we were in Ft Lauderdale the old copper wiring was horrible and I couldn't eliminate receiving the radio transmissions on our phone from a tower that was nearby...moved here and decided that it ain't broken, so left it be

[kendi]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Just pick up the landline receiver and hear the dial tone, lets you know you are not alone in the world.
Hardly use it these days, but like an old pair of slippers, comforting to have around!

We use it when home alone to call our cell phone when It’s been misplaced.

[BlackhawksFan]

I'd say about 70% of the people I know have no landline. We dumped ours nearly 10 years ago.

[Cranford61]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

We have plug in wired land lines with Comcast $8.95/month unlimited calling and a bunch of features.

Obsolete

[72lions]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

When we moved here earlier this year we planned to do away with landlne but got a bundling deal with xfinity that landline was very cheap so we did it.

Do use it very infrequently and when talking to our kids now use cell making 3 way call.

This is not a true land line. It still requires a functioning modem. No internet, no phone.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by ithos

How much does a copper landline cost now? For south of 466A, Century Link is apparently turning their landline service over to ATT .

Is there anyone else who has switched to Comcast/Xfinity and kept their landline? Not the streaming type but the old fashioned ma bell kind invented in the 19th century.

What are you paying for it and from whom?

With fewer residential users and the same infrastructure, it seems the costs are just going to keep going higher.

Thanks for the feedback.

I’ll give it 5 more years, as older folks die off so will the land line telephones. I also think coax cable will also be gone in few short years. Everything will be wireless.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by coconutmama

We do too, for these reasons & 911 accuracy. Also it is easier to read the ID of a caller on our television as we only give out the landline # to businesses.

Why? If they ask For my number I say I call you if I need you’re service. Medical appointments are the only exceptIon for me.

[ithos]

Originally Posted by Malsua

The problem with POTS these days is that it largely no longer exists at least as it was 50 years ago.

Yes, there is a copper wire coming to your house. That wire connects to your house is dumped onto a fiber trunk at some point(often before it gets to the central office) and it's no longer analog. It no longer has the reliance and fault tolerance that the POTS of the cold war era had.

When the backup generators and batteries of the cell towers go down in a power outage, chances are good that your POTS will go too. In fact, they may shut down the POTS first to allow a longer run time of the cell service.

That is interesting. Do you have a reference for this? I seen Recent anecdotal reports of people losing all comms except for their landline. Such as in hurricanes and forest fires .never heard a report . Losing their traditional phone line but did not lose cellphone service and the Internet.
It seems strange that landline phone Phone calls to the traditional copper line would be going through a cell phone tower. I could see it with VOIP.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Just pick up the landline receiver and hear the dial tone, lets you know you are not alone in the world.
Hardly use it these days, but like an old pair of slippers, comforting to have around!

a friend I guess