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I still have a landline (wife seems attached to it? It is a waste of money IMO). I remember as I child being excited when the phone rang, what if it is my frien
by yomlica8 3y ago
I still have a landline (wife seems attached to it? It is a waste of money IMO). I remember as I child being excited when the phone rang, what if it is my friend calling? Now it induces rage as the calls are 98% scam calls.
- ghaff 3y agoI took the plunge when I canceled cable TV a few years back. It would be useful as a backup now and then (although my Internet seems pretty stable--my unassisted cell service is pretty poor) but not $40/month useful.
- redsparrow 3y agoYou can consider porting your landline number to a VOIP service (I use voip.ms) and after that it's nearly free. I bought a basic Linksys modem (SPA2102) so that we can still plug in our cordless phones in an use them normally. As a bonus you can set up simple filtering so that you don't get many spam calls. For me, all calls that have an anonymous or 800 number in the caller ID get redirected to a voice prompt that asks the caller to press 9 to talk to us; all other calls just ring our phone directly. You could also use whitelists, blacklists, etc. It's both better and cheaper than a regular landline...