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They want their kids to have a social life — just not a smartphone. So they're buying landlines.
Yahoo ^ | 10/16/25 | Rachel Grumman Bender

Posted on 10/17/2025 2:04:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Anyone who grew up before Y2K remembers what it was like to make a phone call on a landline: You’d punch in your friend’s phone number (which you had memorized), make awkward small talk with their mom or dad until your friend got on the line, and then see how far you could stretch that curly cord to get some actual privacy while you chatted.

While landlines never really went away, it’s been many years since their heyday. Most Americans — 76% of adults and 86.8% of children — live in wireless-only households, according to a 2023 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that number has been increasing for the past 20 years.

But the landline may be making a comeback. Parents, concerned about their kids’ mental health and online safety, are seeking out ways to keep them off screens (an almost Herculean task these days).

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: landline; landlines; orlandmines; smartphones
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To: DallasBiff

I still have a landline and will as long as I live in my house.

You can have both.


21 posted on 10/17/2025 5:52:01 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: DallasBiff
"Good for the parents, if they want to go really retro, they should get a rotary phone, if they make them anymore."

I have seen converters advertised on the web that plug into your phone line and convert antique rotary pulse to touch tone.
22 posted on 10/17/2025 5:57:53 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Albion Wilde

The click/click/click/ rotary phones presumably are not duotone compatible.


23 posted on 10/17/2025 6:03:11 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I remember they had a big ad window in the middle of yyor browser screen that played their ads constantly. You could move it around but not minimize or get rid of it from blocking 1/4 of your view. They called it the Zeroport and it’s what made your basic Netzero “free” internet.


24 posted on 10/17/2025 6:23:33 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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To: posterchild

Probably not, unless Verizon or whomever did the changeover accommodated both sets of sounds. Would be interesting to know.


25 posted on 10/17/2025 6:32:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: DallasBiff
How much is a landline up to? I finally dropped it a few years ago and the price was over $60 per month for local service which I probably used for a half dozen outgoing calls per month (plus many telemarketing calls coming in every day).

The local phone company kept jacking up the rate every year as more and more people switched to all cellular. I think they may have switched all the remaining customers from analog to a digital VOIP system.

26 posted on 10/17/2025 6:46:21 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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27 posted on 10/17/2025 6:47:32 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: DallasBiff

28 posted on 10/17/2025 6:48:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: DallasBiff
Okay, who knows what the movie reference is?


29 posted on 10/17/2025 6:51:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: DallasBiff

Hello Sarah, can you get me Juanita at the diner?


30 posted on 10/17/2025 6:57:51 PM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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31 posted on 10/17/2025 9:51:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: antceecee

LOL Had ours since 1984, two landlines, one was for faxing for hubbys business too. That one is used for our DSL.


32 posted on 10/18/2025 5:13:36 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: antceecee

LOL Had ours since 1984, two landlines, one was for faxing for hubbys business too. That one is used for our DSL.


33 posted on 10/18/2025 5:16:41 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: DallasBiff

Just get them an old flip phone with no “smart” features.

They can talk but no internet on them.


34 posted on 10/18/2025 5:22:05 AM PDT by dforest
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To: DallasBiff

Good indeed I still have a landline for home use no fear of ads popping up.

The cell phone is for emergence only use.


35 posted on 10/18/2025 7:11:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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