Originally Posted by
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.
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