Goodbye and Good Riddance CenturyLink

[O2HeN2]

You know you can register your cell phone with the sheriff's dept and it will display your home address when calling 911. Just fyi.

Yhea, that's done. The landline is more like Linus' security blanket.



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[theGinsue]

As long as it's still an option, I will maintain a landline; for several reasons.

(1) After watching the cell towers get totally clogged and essentially unavailable for most folks for more than a day during 9/11, I saw the value of a landline (still able to make every call I tried and even received many).
(2) As mentioned above, they work in a widespread power outage that have caused cell towers (okay, I know they aren't "cell" towers anymore, but...) to die. While I have 5 handsets around the house (all tied to the base unit), all requiring power, I have 2 no electrical plugin required phones in the basement to deploy as needed. They were invaluable during power outages.
(3) My base unit has an integrated answering machine. *I* have the message local to me, not on some companies server someplace I don't control.
(4) This one just occurred this year: I work in the office for a week, then from home for a week. When at home, I have to keep an open line to a shop meet-me-net (telecon) for 8 hours every day. I use my landline for that and use my mobile for any other calls I need to make.

Yeah, they're old fashioned and all, but I like it much better than my mobile phone. If it weren't for traveling for work so much I'd ditch the mobile completely and keep the home landline.

One last note about landlines: If I had any say about it I would return all "Obama phones" to landline service with an answering machine (they say the users need to be able to get messages from potential employers). 1 landline with an answering machine would cost taxpayers about $35/month and everyone in the household can use it but a mobile phone it 1/person and some households have many issued, costing taxpayers an unknown amount.

[JohnnyEgo]

I don?t mean to be rude, but people still have land lines?

(Fine. Technically I do have a land line. Just hasn?t been a working phone hooked to it in about twelve years.)

Can't take a call from a prison on a cell phone. Has to be a landline. Been maintaining mine for 20 years now, with 5 more to go with good behavior. The joys of having relatives on both sides of the law.

[scratchy]

I finally had to cancel my landline when they could no longer find me a good copper wire pair. After 2 years of service calls, with an unusable line days after each one, I was forced to VOIP. Comcast is my provider and as an employee, it costs $4 a month.

[TFOGGER]

I use Magicjack as my landline over Comcast. with the hotrodded UPS (20 Ah motorcycle battery), it'll run for about 5 hours in a power outage. 911 address is user definable.

[Irving]

And that's probably 5 hours talk time, right?

[Gman]

Yhea, that's done. The landline is more like Linus' security blanket.



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With CenturyLink, it's more like Lucy holding Charlie Brown's football.

[00tec]

I finally had to cancel my landline when they could no longer find me a good copper wire pair. After 2 years of service calls, with an unusable line days after each one, I was forced to VOIP. Comcast is my provider and as an employee, it costs $4 a month.

Unless you're 10-12 miles from plant, and given nothing.

Oh, and, the remote working allowance is limited to something like 100mbps+. (Guess who corners the market on that)

[O2HeN2]

With CenturyLink, it's more like Lucy holding Charlie Brown's football.

Exactly.

We're on day 10 of not having our phone. We're waiting on the "The office" to do something to enable our [I assume] physically fixed phone line.

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[Dlesh123]

As long as it's still an option, I will maintain a landline; for several reasons.

(1) After watching the cell towers get totally clogged and essentially unavailable for most folks for more than a day during 9/11, I saw the value of a landline (still able to make every call I tried and even received many).
(2) As mentioned above, they work in a widespread power outage that have caused cell towers (okay, I know they aren't "cell" towers anymore, but...) to die. While I have 5 handsets around the house (all tied to the base unit), all requiring power, I have 2 no electrical plugin required phones in the basement to deploy as needed. They were invaluable during power outages.
(3) My base unit has an integrated answering machine. *I* have the message local to me, not on some companies server someplace I don't control.
(4) This one just occurred this year: I work in the office for a week, then from home for a week. When at home, I have to keep an open line to a shop meet-me-net (telecon) for 8 hours every day. I use my landline for that and use my mobile for any other calls I need to make.

Yeah, they're old fashioned and all, but I like it much better than my mobile phone. If it weren't for traveling for work so much I'd ditch the mobile completely and keep the home landline.

One last note about landlines: If I had any say about it I would return all "Obama phones" to landline service with an answering machine (they say the users need to be able to get messages from potential employers). 1 landline with an answering machine would cost taxpayers about $35/month and everyone in the household can use it but a mobile phone it 1/person and some households have many issued, costing taxpayers an unknown amount.

Plus 1. Cell phone quality is like landlines were in the 60s. Terrible at connecting, Poor connections after the call is finally established, dropped calls, poor coverage. Expectation always exceeds what they can accomplish. But since texting is the way of the world (kids) bout have to have one. And I dislike simplex voice comms.