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Plus a wired landline phone is always charged, with excellent reception.
by Nition 8y ago
Plus a wired landline phone is always charged, with excellent reception.
- anoncoward111 8y agoAnd in the US can be had for like $10 a month as opposed to $30 minimum for verizon prepaid
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- twunde 8y agoNitpick: typically they have excellent reception. _However,_ with many copper lines not being maintained and especially in some rural areas, reception can be awful to unusable.
- ryacko 8y agoThe backbone is increasingly digital or wireless.
- lostapathy 8y agoWe have landlines at one facility that are terrible. Loud hum on every call. Rural area with poor cell service too.
- FabHK 8y agoPOTS (plain old telephone service) is really amazing in many ways. Huge reliability, independent of the ordinary power grid, dead simple consistent UI, etc. (I have an IP phone at work, and it's an unintuitive unreliable beast.)
- gaius 8y agoRight. It’s no big deal for anyone if there’s no mobile signal but no dial tone is shocking. Even when there’s a power cut the landlines still work. I have probably only experienced an outage of POTS a couple of times in my life.
- toss1 8y agoUsed to be, although at least Verizon is actively tearing out copper as fast as they can, so that they aren't subject to the old telco regulations.
- umichguy 8y agoAnd it works most of the time, even if the power goes down, there are storms or floods, as long as the wired connection is not down. When NYC lost power in the early oughties, guess which phones were still working? Yep, the pay phones and the landlines. Most of the cell phones were dying or dead. That said, I don't have one but my parents still do.