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.
Land lines are often not affected by power outages .
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Cell doesn’t reach everywhere. There are huge areas that there is no signal.... I mean none, never.
Cell service is not available everywhere. Reception can be spotty in a lot of places.
“It’s probably cheaper to provide everybody a basic cellphone to ensure everybody can call 911 than to keep landlines going”
The PSTN landline system was designed to survive a 1950’s style multimegaton attack. Cell towers and their electronics? Heh. And then, there are capacity issues.
except that’s where the cable/internet usually comes from...
it’s not an issue to leave them inplace, i mean, it’s not like they dont charge for it
I am in MO. Last several months I’ve gotten a letter from AT&T offering a new service that will be cheaper but won’t work during a power failure unless I have a battery backup. Being a geezer I still have a landline and like the fact that I can use the phone to call the power company when power is lost during a storm or (God forbid) an ice storm.
So it may be that the telecoms are backing away from the old, expensive to maintain technology. Right now it’s voluntary, but no doubt in time it will become mandatory. I can kind of understand because many have dropped landline service.
A lot of that copper is aging and the costs of maintaining it are rising. A lot of folks get their internet via DSL over copper.