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Due to where I live I have to maintain a wired phone as I can’t get a reliable cell signal. I just have a voip phone adapter connected to a random old phone an

by cpsns 4y ago

Due to where I live I have to maintain a wired phone as I can’t get a reliable cell signal. I just have a voip phone adapter connected to a random old phone and I use voip.ms for the actual service. It costs effectively nothing to run. It’s not a landline in the transitional sense, but those largely don’t exist anymore.

bovermyer 4y ago
My house still has phone wiring and my ISP still offers landline services, and I'm not in a primitive area.
- cpsns 4y ago
  Yes, but it’s probably not a landline in the way most people think. Almost all those services use voip backends now with only the last mile being copper.
  - 310260 4y ago
    Exactly! And especially if it's provided by a cable ISP. It's just VoIP. Maybe with some QoS on their network and battery backup. It's not a real circuit-switched network with its own power supply like traditional POTS service.
  - bovermyer 4y ago
    Well that's unfortunate.