How Many People Still Use Landlines?

[Riven]

Because they're old.

 

[jasonc]

Because they're old.

If the power poles here went down the internet would crash .

Wireless phone service all of them here suck .try being under the very phone provider tower and get zero service

 

[Riven]

If the power poles here went down the internet would crash .

Wireless phone service all of them here suck .try being under the very phone provider tower and get zero service

Where do you live? Belarus?

 

[hawkman]

Because they're old.

People that use landlines ?

 

[jasonc]

Where do you live? Belarus?

No Florida . I have literally been reading meters underneath Verizon towers or parked with a few hundred feet of them and got no signal

 

[hawkman]

If the power poles here went down the internet would crash .

Wireless phone service all of them here suck .try being under the very phone provider tower and get zero service

Cell phone service is line of sight , at least in the rural areas where I am at . If you are right under the tower you will need a reflection to get signal to the tower you are under .

 

[Riven]

People that use landlines ?

Yeah.

 

[jasonc]

Cell phone service is line of sight , at least in the rural areas where I am at . If you are right under the tower you will need a reflection to get signal to the tower you are under .

It wasn't like that before covid .I would have signal up to and in side the fence .

I use to park my truck at central assembly and walk to the tower to grab reads and have no signal from my turn and at places east and west .said tower is visible from the rt 60

 

[Riven]

No Florida . I have literally been reading meters underneath Verizon towers or parked with a few hundred feet of them and got no signal

I also live in Florida. I get perfect signal at my residence. We are discussing landline phones after all.

 

[hawkman]

It wasn't like that before covid .I would have signal up to and in side the fence .

I use to park my truck at central assembly and walk to the tower to grab reads and have no signal from my turn and at places east and west .said tower is visible from the rt 60

Was the tower 4G and now is it 5G ?

 

[jasonc]

Was the tower 4G and now is it 5G ?

Even with 5g all of them suck and I know what 5g looks like

 

[jasonc]

I also live in Florida. I get perfect signal at my residence. We are discussing landline phones after all.

I have found my problem in much of Florida .turn pike ,95 10 and near Tallahassee.

 

[Riven]

I have found my problem in much of Florida .turn pike ,95 10 and near Tallahassee.

Hmm... I have trouble sometimes out west with my provider. It sounds like they don't have enough cell towers in the northern part of the state. I'm down south and it's pretty well developed.

 

[jasonc]

Hmm... I have trouble sometimes out west with my provider. It sounds like they don't have enough cell towers in the northern part of the state. I'm down south and it's pretty well developed.

I'm where the dodgers were once having spring training .this problem has occured in Miami and larger populous areas.

 

[miamited]

Loose power and a land line won't work as the base needs power to work.

Hi jasonc

Actually, commercial power loss won't affect a telephone line unless it is a remote handheld phone device. Your standard trimline wall or desk phone will work perfectly through loss of power. So to be clear, it isn't the line itself that goes down when the power is out, but only the radio transmitter device that allows you to use a handheld remote phone device. Any phone that is hardwired with a chord between the base and the handset will work fine.

Of course, in an office setting, a power outage will shut down the 'board' device that all the office phones are connected to, but if you take a simple hard wire phone and plug it directly to the line via the interface, you will still have service. Worked for Bellsouth for 18 years.

However, to answer the OP's question: No. I do not have a landline phone.

God bless,
Ted

 

[WIP]

We still have a landline here. Mostly because we use it for our DSL connection. If we could get DSL without purchasing the phone service we would. Our DSL provides unlimited data which is good for video streaming. The only other option we have right now is satellite and that would be considerably more expensive for the video streaming we would need.

Another reason we still have a landline is because it is still listed in the local phone book so our neighbors can find a number to reach us. Unfortunately, cell phone numbers are not listed so anyone wanting to contact us by phone needs us to provide them with a number.

Update: About a year ago I discovered that our service provider does now allow us to only purchase the DSL without having to purchase phone service so I dropped the landline phone service saving us about $40.00 per month. They are slowly upgrading the system to fiber-optic but haven't made it out to our neck of the woods yet. We will probably be one of the last ones since we are on the edge of their coverage area.