That’s sad.
We have VOIP now, along with cell phones. VOIP goes away when the power goes out...and to keep cell phones working during a prolonged outage, you need power banks.
I’m not sure this is really ‘progress’. We just seem to trade things off...
We have a generator for when the power goes out, so still have the juice for VOIP, but if the internet goes out with the power lines, the VOIP still isn’t functional until they get the internet lines fixed. Still, we do have power for the cell phones during power outages.
“I’m not sure this is really ‘progress’.”
It’s not. And I am very irritated when sales people call VOIP “landline”. Of course, most of them are too young to even know what a true landline is. When we had one, we knew we could call family and friends if necessary when we lost power.
And when software companies “update / upgrade” and call it progress, it is counter productive. For example, I’m using MS Office 2003. Each newer version was less efficient — removing many keyboard shortcut options, more reliance on a mouse, requiring three actions to achieve what one used to do, etc.
Ditto for Windows “upgrades”. Glitz is added; efficiency is reduced. Maddening.