Do you still have a landline? Why? Why not?

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

16 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

ObiTalk 200: $70 on Amazon

Google Voice: Free

 

No monthly phone bill

Free long distance

Free voicemail

Free texting

Unknown callers are greeted by "Please state your name for the Google Voice subscriber" before connecting.  This trips up most robo-dialers and telemarketing call centers

 

Sure the NSA and Google are listening, but so are your land line providers

 

I love the voice screening on my pixel

 

[Mr Info]

We have one but no traditional phone connected to it. Have for two reasons: 1.) security system uses it 2.) Wife uses it (very infrequently) for faxes for her biz. 

[Saxum]

We have landline.  I used to work in cell phone industry and know with a good landline phone provider the sound quality is better than a cell phone. The problem is finding such a provider.  We currently have Verizon package and having Verizon makes me feel like if I was required to hang a P*ts flag at my house but the alternate is Cox which is equivalent to hang a Phish flag at my home. 

 

We have bought an add-on spam identifier/blocking device which works except for some of the spammers who regularly change their numbers and I think they are using caller id spoofing considering how many different numbers they use.  

 

Oh and there are two sounds which auto dialers recognize as number out of service.  Occasionally I will play on computer with phone on speaker and some do not call back.

[RaoulDuke79]

36 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Does it not drive you crazy???

 

Maybe that’s just me, but I’m fed up with it! 

Absolutely....and my phone setup only allows me to block 25 numbers which I seem to have exhausted in the first month. 

[Augie]

1 minute ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

Absolutely....and my phone setup only allows me to block 25 numbers which I seem to have exhausted in the first month. 

 

I think you could get elected to public office if you promise to fix this single issue! 

 

You could break the promise, as is standard procedure, but you WOULD get elected!  ?

[Just Jack]

30 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

Oh and there are two sounds which auto dialers recognize as number out of service.  Occasionally I will play on computer with phone on speaker and some do not call back.

 

I used to have that sound as the beginning of my answering machine message. Might just go back to it one of these days and see how it works on my cell phone. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Because... Safety.  Everybody is cutting cord, that means "all cell circuits will be jammed in the event of emergency or disaster."  Landlines will be less stressed.

 

30 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

Absolutely....and my phone setup only allows me to block 25 numbers which I seem to have exhausted in the first month. 

My new landline cordless phones block 2,000.  And had Bluetooth... So cellphones (up to two) will ring thru on my landline cordless... Or dial out.  Put the cell pn charge and use cordless landline.

[KD in CA]

Why do so many of you have robo calls?  
The Do Not Call registry still works.

[RaoulDuke79]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

I think you could get elected to public office if you promise to fix this single issue! 

 

You could break the promise, as is standard procedure, but you WOULD get elected!  ?

I think I would have a good shot until someone digs up my past indiscretions and finds out I dressed up up in black face every Halloween since 1983.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, Just Jack said:

 

I used to have that sound as the beginning of my answering machine message. Might just go back to it one of these days and see how it works on my cell phone. 

Cellphone you can block the # and at times your carrier will recognize it as high volume spammer, spoofer.

 

But... A blocked call will still appear as blocked in your notifications tray. Or, in the log.

[Augie]

19 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I think I would have a good shot until someone digs up my past indiscretions and finds out I dressed up up in black face every Halloween since 1983.

 

If you just keep it on until the next year, it’s just you. Right? 

1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Cellphone you can block the # and at times your carrier will recognize it as high volume spammer, spoofer.

 

But... A blocked call will still appear as blocked in your notifications tray. Or, in the log.

 

I can block them from my landline too, but they have so many trunk line numbers, it’s virtually hopeless. I get them on my cell, but it’s a tiny fraction of what I get on the landline for some reason. 

[RaoulDuke79]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Because... Safety.  Everybody is cutting cord, that means "all cell circuits will be jammed in the event of emergency or disaster."  Landlines will be less stressed.

 

My new landline cordless phones block 2,000.  And had Bluetooth... So cellphones (up to two) will ring thru on my landline cordless... Or dial out.  Put the cell pn charge and use cordless landline.

My landline has bluetooth and I connected it to my cell and kept getting robocalls on my cell, so I unpaired it.

[BillsFan4]

We do, mainly because it was actually cheaper to get the bundle package w/cable and internet. 

 

Weve talked about bout getting rid of it because it’s all robo-calls and scams. But it’s nice to have that home number to give out on forms and anything else online that requires a phone #.

 

I fear that if I only have my cell # to give out, I will eventually get just all those robo calls on my cell instead. 

[Just Jack]

44 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Cellphone you can block the # and at times your carrier will recognize it as high volume spammer, spoofer.

 

But... A blocked call will still appear as blocked in your notifications tray. Or, in the log.

 

I know all that. I've currently have blocked 174 numbers on my phone. 

[stony]

No land line here.  But "they" know the warranty on the car I owned 5 years ago has expired.  

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

 

I know all that. I've currently have blocked 174 numbers on my phone. 

 

I’m sure I have at least that many blocked at home.....and still keep getting calls from the same places! 

 

Sometimes I play along and hit a number from the menu just to have someone to yell at. They just hang up. What a great job....they must hate their lives. 

[Buffalo_Gal]

No longer. We had a landline until last year. I had no idea what the number was as we only had it for the alarm. I never used the landline to make a call in all the years we had it. Hubby finally had us switch over to an alarm system that used our cell phones for notifications, and then we ditched the landline. (Our fax number is through the internet.)

Edited November 20, 2019 by Buffalo_Gal

[Augie]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

No longer. We had a landline until last year. I had no idea what the number was as we only had it for the alarm. I never used the landline to make a call in all the years we had it. Hubby finally had us switch over to an alarm system that used our cell phones for notifications. and then we ditched the landline. (Our fax number is through the internet.)

 

That’s a good point. We almost never use the fax, but I need to look into the alarm system. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

How do cells work with 911 systems? Are VOIPs handling them properly now?

 

Once again... Safety.  A landline is 24 volts. How do you charge your cellphone in case of an emergency.

 

Landline can provide emergency power:

 

 

Edited November 20, 2019 by ExiledInIllinois

[ExiledInIllinois]

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