Land Line Phones Aren't Totally Obsolete Yet (Page 3): I bet some of you guys that have land lines don't know that the landline is really a internet phone. The service is provide by...

Leo Perez

I bet some of you guys that have land lines don't know that the landline is really a internet phone. The service is provide by the internet via landline. In other words take Magic jack. It's a phone service on your ipad, smart phone, computer etc but it's a service that it fed thru your internet not your regular telephone lines. Verizon tells me within 5 years you will be see less and less telephone lines thats why they are going to fios, high speed internet. The wave of the future. ok I open for corrections.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Popeye wrote:

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.

The caller only wants a response (not automatic) from a phone # so they know that it is an answered connection.
Then they will put it on the list for good auto calling.
They can make the caller ID say any name or number they want when they call you.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

1Feathercrest wrote:

Another ignoramus who failed grade school grammar. LOSE is the word, not loose. If you LOSE something, you can't find it. If something is LOOSE, it is untied.

Did you read my correction posted just afterwards, or are YOU too much of an ignoramus to read the entire thread before offering an uncalled for rude and insulting remark? Just what we need - another angry old man turned rude troll (and a prime candidate for the ignore list). Where are your manners?

TriX wrote:

Meant "lose service", not "loose service" - too late to edit. I know the difference, but my spell checker does not. I need to proof my posts more carefully 😩

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

The two landlines that seem to be forever gone are the ones where you had Gert the Operator connect you and the one that used the 'longs' and the 'shorts.'

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Still use mine, besides the internet runs on it here.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

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.

I can vouch for that one - my son set it up on my landline without telling me and for months I wondered why just one ring and no more. He finally mentioned that he had set it up. And I have no intention of dropping the landline. In a power outage one winter, neighbors were running around frantically trying to charge their phones; my old-fashioned landline continued to work. Cell phone is only for emergencies while in the car. I've watched too many people addicted to their cell phones and have no need to be in touch constantly.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Our land line phone set is the type that lets you enter contact list with certain ring tones (which we use for friends & family & health clinics & certain businesses) and a block list. We never just answer but just check the abswering machine. One time I tried a get-even-ski. I answered and got the begging pitch then I told the caller what he had won "for bothering me I have noted your organization and will make a point of contributing zero $ forever." Then hung up.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

John_F wrote:

Our land line phone set is the type that lets you enter contact list with certain ring tones (which we use for friends & family & health clinics & certain businesses) and a block list. We never just answer but just check the abswering machine. One time I tried a get-even-ski. I answered and got the begging pitch then I told the caller what he had won "for bothering me I have noted your organization and will make a point of contributing zero $ forever." Then hung up.

Caller ID is a big help in screening unwanted calls. The scammers have gotten to the point where they spoof a local number in your exchange to appear to be a neighbor. If I don't recognize the caller, I let the answerphone pick it up, which eliminates 95% of the nuisance calls. The national do not call list is useless. I think the scammers and robocallers actually use the list to target calls.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I have a land line at home. My primary phone on it is one that requires house power, but I have a Princess® phone immediately available to switch onto the line if needed. I do have a flip-phone, but it is only to call out for an emergency in the car--no one knows its number (even I).

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Trix-

Have had several arguments from people in our area saying we called them when we didn't. Some folks don't understand the precept of scammers spoofing their return numbers in caller ID. Have received some nasty responses from folks in town. Nothing like setting neighbor against neighbor.

James Slick Loc: Pittsburgh,PA

whitewolfowner wrote:

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

That's true, but I have had exactly 1 landline failure in 40 years. (I don't recall any as a child either) but there have been many times when I got a weak (or dead) cellular signal. I had 1 company (... starts with an "S"...) whose signal would go up and down in strength "number of bars" while the phone sat still on the coffee table!

dragonswing Loc: Pa

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.

Unfortunately, if you use AT&T, you can't get nomorobo

Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

Why can't you get nomorobo if you use AT&T?

dragonswing Loc: Pa

Morry wrote:

Why can't you get nomorobo if you use AT&T?

I tried and got a message that AT&T does not support nomorobo so could not sign up for it

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

I will not use a VOIP phone. It gives you two possible points of failure instead of one. And why connect from phone to internet back to phone anyway when it can be just phone to phone?