Land Line Phones Aren't Totally Obsolete Yet: In the age of high tech cell phones, one wonders why anyone would continue to use a land line phone. My first phone was a rotary dial...

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

In the age of high tech cell phones, one wonders why anyone would continue to use a land line phone. My first phone was a rotary dial version. Then later the button version. I did later buy a smartphone, which I own today. However, I still have my land-line phone. They are old and still reliable, and work if you have a power failure. One man who survived Hurricane Harvey in Texas, said he was able to get in touch with a relative, by using a neighbor's land line phone to another land line phone. His cell phone did not work. I have no intentions of giving up my land line phone anytime soon. Especially in earthquake California.

dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.

We still have ours and are not about to give it up as long as the phone company keeps the service available. Too many times have I received calls from someone on a cell phone with reception that is poor at best and almost nonexistent at the worst. I started out as a kid in a home with a wall mounted phone that we rang up central and gave them the number we wanted. Even the clarity on those phones was better than a lot of cell phones.

Popeye Loc: LifIno

We still have our landline phone in case of power outages. Have thought many times of throwing it out the window as we get about a dozen or so calls a day from robo callers. They usually start about 0600 and continue well into the night. We both have an old flip phone and are starting to get robo calls on them. The ONLY people to have our flip phone numbers are family members. No such thing as peace and quiet in your own home anymore.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I'll keep mine, too. Cell phones don't work inside my home. My cell phone is so old people laugh when they see it. I only use it for emergencies and while traveling.

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Mine is old also. The screen on mine has been broken for years, tried to take it in for repairs and they asked, "What the hell is that?"

Fred Haider

Plus the law offers you more expectation of privacy with a land line. No one needs to know what I ate or the weather unless I want them to know.

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

The reason I still have my land line phone that is for general calling use, such as doctors appointment or the other business needs. My cell phone is limited for family member private use only, this will avoid lots of those unwanted calls form scammers. Business shares your phone number to the others plus your personal information that we can't do anything about that, only thing we can do is be careful when answering a call that you don't know who it is, or don't answer at all.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Popeye wrote:

We still have our landline phone in case of power outages. Have thought many times of throwing it out the window as we get about a dozen or so calls a day from robo callers. They usually start about 0600 and continue well into the night. We both have an old flip phone and are starting to get robo calls on them. The ONLY people to have our flip phone numbers are family members. No such thing as peace and quiet in your own home anymore.

Go to nomorobo.com and sign up.
They will stop the landline "ROBO" calls. After you will only hear the phone ring once and they are gone.
Has been working for me for many months now.
If you want your cell covered, I understand there is a charge for that though.

TJBNovember Loc: Long Island, New York

mas24 wrote:

In the age of high tech cell phones, one wonders w... (show quote)

To rely entirely on cell phones is a fools errand. When we got hit by Super Storm Sandy cell service was down for days in our area. Friends and family were able to check on us via our land line, though it was fortunate we had a generator to recharge the backup power supply for fiber optic interface. We even offered the use of our phone to a neighbor, so she couild let her husband know she was okay.

whitewolfowner

Of course an earthquake would never sever phone and power lines and cut off your land line.

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

charles tabb wrote:

Go to nomorobo.com and sign up.
They will stop the landline "ROBO" calls. After you will only hear the phone ring once and they are gone.
Has been working for me for many months now.
If you want your cell covered, I understand there is a charge for that though.

It only stop the "animated tele marketing" calls but not the calls from real people, they came from every where around the wold. I got calls from Western Africa; countries from Central America etc....Those are real scammers who are looking for your money.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

So far it's stopped all of mine.

Old Timer Loc: Greenfield, In.

Tele a woman is still like instant messaging, still works.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Granted if a falling tree takes down your arial subscriber loop land line, you loose service, but other than that the telephone system is VERY robust. It will run on battery power in the central office and most lines are now buried. In Hurricane Fran, when Raleigh was without power for 2 weeks, cable/internet for a month, and cell service for many days, the only thing working was landlines or POTS (plain old telephone service). Also, if you call 911, the dispatcher immediately knows the exact address without being told.

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Last telemarketer that called, I let the answering machine pick it up. Part of the spiel was if I want the call to be in a language other than English, press one. If you're not at home, press 2. (???) The best one I ever received was from the "IRS". I looked at the caller ID and it was my own number. Must of been the wife wanting to go shopping. Didn't work.