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VOIP. No cellphone for me (yet).
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Like Electronic M, we have a landline as part of a cable TV/internet package. I only use my cell for family members--however, I have several family member who I cannot understand over my cell (or other cell phones), so the landline will remain as long as the service is available.
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Tha'ts odd, my current VOIP modem is an Arris, and supports pulse dialing.
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I can't get decent internet service without a phone being part of the package. My wife, who sometimes is stark raving nuts (sometimes), gets so upset at the only callers we ever get anymore (scammers, surveys, telemarketers, etc) that she starts madly listing off all the special ways she wishes to torture them to the edge of death! But...she refuses, in no uncertain terms, to let me unplug the phone as long as it's part of the package. I should just tell her I talked Comcast into disconnecting it!
My stepmother finally ditched her landline when Verizon could no longer come up with 2 good wires. If it rained her phone would be out for weeks. Back when I was in business this got to an issue as well. I had a fax line so I could call & they would have the system switch the calls to the other number until they could come out and fix it. One day the phone repairman told me there weren't many good wires left that they could choose from.
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So do you like old Copper wires?
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Some persistent annoying scammer numbers I've been known to lift the receiver and drop it to silence it.
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Landline-via-Comcast here as well. Several years ago I was forced to install a Panasonic 616 PBX after a "software update" removed Comcast's previous support of pulse dialing.
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Have to use a modem for an upcoming job at a Fortune 20 company, because their locked-down IT architecture won't let my specialty box on their network without a 3-month vetting process. Their house, their rules, so that's fine. But the alternative is modem connection. Have a box full of modems at the door for my 9:00 AM test session this morning. They say they have POTS, but I'm guessing it's really VOIP from Cisco. We'll find out soon.
I haven't had POTS since 2014. Had fiber-to-the-house installed a couple months ago, and used the copper wire as a pull wire to pull the fiber thru the 120' conduit from house to pole. Couldn't even find a neighbor with POTS to do some pre-testing. We'll see how it goes. +++ ATH0 |
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Then don't let them ever swap it out to a NVG599 Arris modem if rotary pulse dial is important. That model doesn't, as documented in the manual too.
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We were copper until about four months ago when my parents opted for free VoIP as part of a speed boost on our fiber connection. At first I wasn't impressed but the fiber modem is doing a great job handling touch tone and rotary and has successfully done dialup connections. I have a PBX between the modem and the phones in the house anyways which lets me run more "demanding" phones and modems.
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Only time I've been without phone was last October when a critical ATT building got hit by lightning and a large part of N.Texas was without phone and internet for about 12 hours. Oddly the outage affected my cell phone too, Had to physically drive to an ATT store to find out what was going on. By the time I got home the wide area outage had hit the news. POW! ZAP! You'd think a big company like ATT would have backup... nope! |
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I still have a copper phone line. Still have rotary phones connected. Unfortunately I am not able to get high speed internet being where I am.... I have to use a hotspot for internet... which is okay. Since I go to sea, I can take the hotspot with me and use on the ship.
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