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I hate the hand held touch tone phones. I have 2 rotarys, one as main phone in home office and other in living room for wife. When it rings you can hear it all over the house.
We haven't had a land line for several years for 2 reasons, in our rural area it was totally unreliable with a lot of noise, interference, and outages etc. Our cell phones are much more reliable and will work anywhere. That being said, I still have a wall mount rotary phone in my basement that could be connected at any time! LOL
If it isn't for a business, why do you have a landline?
Because I am with Bell Canada and the rates for home land line are way cheaper than cell phone. Does not need charging . I have zero interest in owning a cell phone, If I am out of the house, nobody can bother me.
You know the calls from the ; DUCT CLEANING SERVICE, LOWER YOUR INTEREST RATE COMPANY, CHARITABLE DONATION PEOPLE , LAWN SERVICE , NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ON AND ON AND ON. Real estate people wanting to list your house. Cemetery people wants to sell you a plot.
When you multiple smack the rotary phone on the hard service makes a great noise to the hairball on the other end . Try that with your cellphone.
I have a cell and a land line. I guess I'd have to ask why have only a cell phone. There's no directory for cell numbers. If someone needs to contact you for any number of reasons and doesn't have your cell number and you don't have a land line, you're SOL. Also, a few years back when a monster wind blew through and took out most of the local cell towers our good old copper wired land line still worked.
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People who have cell phones cannot put them down and turn them off.. They walk out into traffic head down reading the messages from text or calls, walking into glass doors and poles. They are driving along in a vehicle and feel they must talk on the phone or text , or cannot ignore it and drive. Endangering everyone around them. You see them in traffic head down at the lights, cell phone in lap, totally oblivious of the change of the lights.
The penalty for using and driving at the rarely enforced $1000 fine isn't enough. Cell phone should be seized on the spot by police who witness the offense, take the phone and whack it with a 5 pound hammer . Enough of the patty cakes treatment of these stupid people by the liberal/democrats who end up running our countries.
What makes this even worse is the new dope laws that allow happy time anytime. You think they are not out there driving along with the thousands of drunks each hour.
My and your life is at stake here and I don't like OUR chances of getting away unscathed.
My phones are land lines because I am leagely blind and cant see to use those small cell phones. I have a friend who lost 2 doughters and a son in law in two separate accidents ,the other drivers were on their cell phones. If I had my way my phone would have a crank on the side! See if the kids can figure that one out!
I have a cell phone, the ringer is off text message me if anybody needs something urgent, and ill get back to you AT THE END OF THE DAY OR WHEN I GET TIME doing business with younger groups under 40 they cant understand why I don't glue my phone to my head like they do. but that`s how I handle it when I get time ill return your calls
I have a cell phone that I carry in case of emergency. It's a track phone flip phone and I buy a 90 minute 3 month card every three months for #20.00 to keep it active. I now have accumulated over 3000 minutes of unused service. My wife complains that I never have it turned on. I explained that if I have an emergency I will turn it on.
The only reason I keep my landline is because the number has been published in the G&D for years, and I'd miss talking to you guys if I deep six it!! I'll be turfing it soon though. We spend way too much on phones up here...
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I have a cell phone that I carry in case of emergency. It's a track phone flip phone and I buy a 90 minute 3 month card every three months for #20.00 to keep it active. I now have accumulated over 3000 minutes of unused service. My wife complains that I never have it turned on. I explained that if I have an emergency I will turn it on.
I used to have a Tracfone. What I did was buy the smallest number of minutes I could then add a full year of airtime during checkout. It works out to just over $100 for a full year and you don't end up with boatloads of minutes you can't use. We also used the Tracfone to make long distance calls. It helped burn the minutes and saved long distance charges on the home phone.
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Actually four $20.00 cards equals 360 days so it's cheaper than the one year. I also purchased the doubler when I first got the phone so it multiplies my time and often they send bonus codes if your time is almost up . My home phone is thru comcast and has unlimited time use for the US and Canada and several other countrys. Comcast is a little on the high priced side but when dealing with insurance or other places that put you on eternal hold it's nice to be able to put the phone on speaker and continue reading Chat online.
I actually converted my old landline over to VoiP :) kept my number and phone, and only cost me $5 a month. can call anywhere in country free voicemail i can check anywhere i want. shoot i can even take the phone box with me and use it anywhere i have the internet. pretty spiffy and convenient.
i do like my cell phone, i use it to take all my pictures when working on the car, and have it upload to google. this way i can share them with everyone here well some of them, i take thousands of pictures for my reference. but sometimes i get busy and forget to take pictures, and i do NOT take it apart just to get one either
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