Home Phone

[lincolnboy]

Wonder what the percent is of people who have drop their land lines.

[sc281]

Never owned one.

[94cobrastang]

Magic jack for the last few years. It's only used for the kids to make calls.

[The King]

Landline for u-verse service, otherwise no home phone other than cellular since 2001.

[bard]

ADT now offers cellular monitoring, but look into Smith Thompson. They're usually cheaper for the same service. With ST the cellular module is a one time $89 fee and monitoring is $17/mo.

[slow99]

I have one. My job requires that I have two numbers listed to get a hold of me.

Interesting, what do you do for a living?

[diablo rojo]

What's with the old thread resurrections?

[The King]

Any thread that involves greats like FreightTrain is well worth resurrecting.

[DFWtechie]

I switch people back daily from VOIP service to Landlines, there a lot of people who say they miss a lot of calls, they just never ring on the VOIP line. The bad thing is traditional POTS lines are going away by 20/20 and everyone will have to go to VOIP or 4g/LTE service.

I see people with Life alerts on VOIP, I don't like this idea simply because you may have to reboot the router to make a call occasionally. If you need to hit the button for help what are you going to do say Time out gotta reboot my VOIP router so I can call for help?

Ankle bracelets also require a POTS line simply because a VOIP modem can be used anywhere.

[txstangnut]

i would love to, but ADT needs a landline or so i have been told.

god bless.

Not true. They can do a cell dialer or something. If you do that they will probably extend your contract. On another note if you are not under contract call customer loyalty or threaten to cancel and you can get your monitoring price lowered.

[GT Fanatic]

I miss those days of feeling cool. When I would walk around the house with a 25ft plus phone cord. Then cordless was invented. No home phone since 2002.

[GhostTX]

I had a $30 Verizon bill for a no-frills land line. Then they decided to bump it up to $60. So, got my ISP to hook up the VOIP line for $25 adder to my internet.

ADT now offers cellular monitoring, but look into Smith Thompson. They're usually cheaper for the same service. With ST the cellular module is a one time $89 fee and monitoring is $17/mo.

Since the VOIP didn't work with the security, we rolled into the ADT cellular monitoring. After the installation, it's a $5 adder to the existing security bill.

So, not a total net win. I did have to pay for the ADT installation, but the VOIP phone is free continental long distance and at the time, my internet was bumped to the "fast" 50mbps, which is now standard.

The wife likes having the "landline", which is the only reason I'm keeping. She does use it more than me, and she doesn't want to hassle giving people both our cell numbers should we drop it.

[mardyn]

We have one over at my Mom's house next door.. bare minimum package with AT&T is still 33.xx per month, but my Mom still uses it occasionally...

No land lines here in our home at all. I've considered a VOIP but our internet connection is so pitiful, it would be hit and miss at the very best.

mardyn

[lincolnboy]

Who is old enough that you had a pager. I wasnt but i think you looked more cool with a pager then a cell phone

[BP]

I carried a pager which had voicemail. You'd get a page with your own number so you'd have to call yourself, enter a PIN to listen to your message and then put in another quarter to call the person back. My nephew had a text pager though and I thought it was awesome.

I still keep a home phone but it's with an obitalk device and uses Anveo for the VOIP part. I think it's $29 a year, it was free when I had the box setup for Google Voice but they planned on shutting down the service so I paid for a provider. There isn't anything plugged into the telco's box from inside my house.