Posted on 02/07/2024 7:12:37 PM PST by thecodont
A proposal by phone and internet service provider, AT&T, to end landline service for most Californians is drawing backlash.
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It’s probably cheaper to provide everybody a basic cellphone to ensure everybody can call 911 than to keep landlines going.
It would be nice to have cell service.
I can see your point, but they wanted the land line to keep
a wired land-line option.
Just another cheap cell-phone does not provide that option.
AT&T is garbage - signed former AT&T customers
Land lines are often not affected by power outages .
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I understand what they want, but if the arguement is a landline service in order to call emergency, then give them a basic cellphone that allows for that.
Cell doesn’t reach everywhere. There are huge areas that there is no signal.... I mean none, never.
I need a land line for an AUTOVON phone...
Come join with us in the 21st century.
I understand that some of America is still too rural to have cell phone service. But it should be perhaps a gradient option, because ending landline would allow resources to be spent putting up towers so those who are most rural would be able to have cellphone service.
It’s like that in Northern Alberta. If I go from Edmonton to Grande Prairie, once I’m about 20 or 30 miles going north of Stony Plain, there is no cell phone service until you are very close to Grand Prairie. It’s like 6 hours of dead air and very unsettling.
I think the Hills have Eyes in some areas of Northern Alberta.
My internet provider gave us free VOIP -voice over internet and we kept our landline number. It works great. We do have cheap cell phones if power outage.
Why?
They already have one of those in most instances.
The land line was only an option, and if you already have
one, no need.
Look, if you don’t have a cell-phone, I think you have a point,
but does anyone not have a cell phone at all these days?
Cell service is not available everywhere. Reception can be spotty in a lot of places.
Don’t get me going on my land line.
There is one advantage that Verizon took away - total independence from utility power. Verizon has forced FIOS on us and now, we don’t have that advantage. You need a damn battery pack for temporary back up if power goes out.
Otherwise, though, I still prefer my land line at home.
Maybe if these idiots making phones would allow networking of cell phones, we might relinquish our land line.
Cell phones are a pain both as a receiver and a caller. I am not carrying my cell phone everywhere I go in the damn house. People call me on the cell and I have to scramble to get it opposite ends, if I can hear it.
The other side is trying to call someone. We don’t need to always get a specific person. Why should I have to call 5 phones to get SOMEONE of that household who knows the answer?
If they don’t create networking for cell phones, I will not give up a landline.
Not anymore.
Thanks, bastards at VERIZON!
I’m saying for an option. Not everybody wants a cellphone to use regularly, but they still need to connect with the outside world in the event of an emergency. However, when it comes to older technology, there also comes a point when the cost of maintaining the technology outweighs the benefits of its existence.
The cost of such cellphones, to ensure everybody is connected is very low, like $5 low each month. Since, you are right that almost everybody does have a cellphone, giving the remainder the most basic cellphone imaginable to ensure they can still make phonecalls would be an almost nothing amount on your bill.
I’m not talking about smartphones, but something like an Alcatel.
I thought with Verizon FIOS power would stay on .
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Look at the telephone poles. You will see more and more drop wires hanging after they’ve been cut away from the houses. The cell tower near me provides faster internet. Completely wireless. There will be a need for landlines but not as many. I’d hate to be one of the employees.
I understand that, to which I support keeping landline going for those places. I’m not interested in ending landline services where cell phone services are spotty. However, in some places, we are metaphorically running a trainline for a single person just because they don’t want to buy a car.
It should be a gradual thing, to where formally unserviceable counties are now being serviced.
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