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> Landlines are terrible across the board though Until something happens near your home (big event, accident, terrorism, etc), mobile cells crap out under the
by toyg 5y ago
> Landlines are terrible across the board though
Until something happens near your home (big event, accident, terrorism, etc), mobile cells crap out under the strain of thousands trying to call at the same time, and you're left with no connection.
I keep a landline only for that - emergencies.
- lostmsu 5y agoCan't you just use the Internet in that case?
- zbrozek 5y agoMaybe! But some folks would like some redundancy on infrastructure, particularly for emergencies. My elderly parents, for example, held on to a land line until they had both cell and fiber internet in their very-rural home. They wanted to have more than one way to reach emergency services (or me) in the event of disaster. I live in a more-urban area and am quite a lot younger, so I'm not as concerned about it.
- toyg 5y agoMost consumer-internet infrastructure is built on the expectation that only a small percentage of people will actually use it at any given time. Chances are a localized emergency will be precisely the time you see the limits of this approach.
- lostmsu 5y agoVoice and even video calls barely cost anything in comparison to full HD or 4k video from Netflix.