I had a rental property where I keep one room for visiting family and myself when doing work on the house. I had a new renter who was a real neat freak. He decided I had too many wires in the alley behind his back door, so decided to remove everything that was not connected to his apartment or clearly electrical. Result was he eliminated my land line connection on two floors, which works even when the electrical service is out. Phone people said I cannot get a land line back, so had to convert to Fios and other stuff that I did not want. Took hours and hours of calls and several days of having to go to that house to admit phone employees. Then the guy move out and wanted $200 back even though buying battery backup in case of electrical failure and all the other time I spent was far more than $200, not to mention that at age 80 I liked the security of 100% usable phone power even with power loss. GRRRRRRR!!!
What phone people told you you couldn’t get a land line?
Landline phones are now connected to the fiber network very close to the premises, and often don’t work when the power is out. That nice redundancy is gone in most places.