Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for December 05, 2024

I love my land line and will never get rid of it.

Why would anyone own a land mine? Where in the house would you safely put it?

I still have my Landline I pay $5 a month for it. I use it when I have to give out my phone number on a form this way I don’t get spam calls on my cell, and I let the answering machine answer all calls

We keep ours because it gives us a decoy number to put on forms that insist on having a number to sell. We haven’t done anything with it except clear the garbage emails in years.

I’d love to have one. But all that’s available here is that voip stuff. Keep it if you’ve got it. It works during storms.

Listening to the dial-tone is very soothing. Ah, and the gentle ticking of a spinning dial.

I have a phone with a wire hooked up to remote batteries and equipment that should survive a nuclear attack so I can tell the power, cell, and cable providers that their systems are down.

Read that AT&T is planning to discontinue all landline services by 2029 (except in CA, who is fighting it). AT&T thinks that I am going to welcome switching over to one of their fiber or cellphone accounts… I know too many people who have had problems with both of those services, as well as billing problems, so no dice. I have already told AT&T that if they disconnect my landline then we are finished doing any business.

We live in a creek valley and get no cell reception at home. The landline is necessary for us.