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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453517 02/27/20 05:58 PM
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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453561 02/27/20 06:25 PM
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I don't remember exactly how many years ago I got rid of it but I will definitely remember the 6 month battle with ATT. When it was over I was ready to have nothing to do with ATT. They kept telling me that I had to keep the land line to have internet service all the while they were offering internet to new customers without a land line. I wrote an email to Dave Lieber at the DMN. He has had lots of dealings with ATT. I thinks he ranks them worst for customer service. He has met with the CEO on the subject. Dave got me a special ONE TIME use direct line to a manager. All of this just so that ATT could keep my $30/month for something I never used. The only calls I ever got were telemarketers. Last time i talked to my brother he was hanging on to his.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453572 02/27/20 06:40 PM
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I finally dropped ours. We kept it for when we lost our cell phones, we could call it and run around the house hoping to hear the cell phone ringing. We kept it off the hook and would have to hang up and wait at least 20 seconds to be able to use it. When I went to drop it, I called Spectrum and they asked for our password. I said when I picked this land line up 20 years ago it was with Verizon and my password was Claude Balls. They could not confirm it so they refused to cancel it. I said that's funny, when did it switch from Verizon to Spectrum and they said about 2 years ago. I went on to ask how they did this without my permission. They said they had my permission, I said no way. Any how - this went on for at least 30 minutes and they said that they couldn't cancel my service because I didn't give them my password. I said how could I found out my password and they said I'd have to give them the account number. I said I don't even get a bill in the mail as we pay it online auto draft. It was like pulling teeth to get them to drop the service.

Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453575 02/27/20 06:43 PM
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Due to poor cell reception at the house I still have a land line.

Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453579 02/27/20 06:44 PM
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Wife's heart doctor finally upgraded his heart monitoring stuff so she doesn;t have to hold a phone to her heart. Used the ole squark, brrrqqq, bzzzzzzzz fax machine sound.
Could probably get rid of it.


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Wife and I gave up land line llooong time ago. My dad still has one.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13453593 02/27/20 06:56 PM
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No land line. When we discontinued cable service we cut the land line too.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: Uncle Zeek] #13453720 02/27/20 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Zeek
Have it through FIOS service at home. We have cordless handsets so that we don't have to rely on cellphones in the house, but we don't give thehome number out to anyone.

Still rings alot with telemarketers. When I'm in a mood, I answer and have fun with them.



That was a problem we had as well. I finally told Frontier to stop the service and pull the landline. With the cells, the telemarketers are not as bad. If we see a number we don't recognize we don't answer it. If they leave a message fine, if not that is fine too. We are happy with just cell phones.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: David Welcher] #13454779 02/28/20 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by David Welcher
I finally dropped ours. We kept it for when we lost our cell phones, we could call it and run around the house hoping to hear the cell phone ringing. We kept it off the hook and would have to hang up and wait at least 20 seconds to be able to use it. When I went to drop it, I called Spectrum and they asked for our password. I said when I picked this land line up 20 years ago it was with Verizon and my password was Claude Balls. They could not confirm it so they refused to cancel it. I said that's funny, when did it switch from Verizon to Spectrum and they said about 2 years ago. I went on to ask how they did this without my permission. They said they had my permission, I said no way. Any how - this went on for at least 30 minutes and they said that they couldn't cancel my service because I didn't give them my password. I said how could I found out my password and they said I'd have to give them the account number. I said I don't even get a bill in the mail as we pay it online auto draft. It was like pulling teeth to get them to drop the service.

Just like AT&T these companies don't want to cancel residential land lines that are gravy money and almost pure profit. I have a real nice wireless phone set and an answering machine. I want to trash it all but hold off thinking maybe some day someone will want it.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13454798 02/28/20 06:50 PM
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The Wife insists we have one. But when we switched to Spectrum for cable and internet I got the package that included their "land line" for $10/month. She still calls it a land line but is starting to suspect something is up when the internet goes out and the "land line" also quits.

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Still have one. Telephone company ran new overhead lines in the area last summer and they came by Wednesday to say they were going to hook us up in a couple of weeks.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13454990 02/28/20 11:39 PM
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We dropped the land line about 12 years ago, but we had used that number for a home-based business my wife has so we ported the number over to her cell phone so she never missed a business call.

When we got Spectrum cable for TV and internet the deal came with a land line connection. As soon as they installed it I called and cancelled it so no extra charge for something we would never use. Still got the same deal though.


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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13455026 02/29/20 12:08 AM
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I was considering dropping it until this last year .

At 2:30 in the morning I was awakened by someone beating on my side entrance door . Shouted out "who the fudge is it? " in my loudest voice . Sheriff's department . I ordered the kid (might have been mid-20s) to the front door . Honestly not sure who was more scared . roflmao

Turned out to be a wiring problem in a a relay but I'm glad they found me so quickly . Not sure if they can trace a cel that fast .

I cancelled long distance and caller ID but I think I'll hold on to the land line for now .

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Re: Land Lines [Re: river-rat] #13457806 03/02/20 07:43 PM
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Got five (yes, 5) into the house but only one is active for the phone. Been so many years don't remember when we had the single LL replaced (disconnected at both ends, the wires are still there) with the 5 line. Sometime back in the 80s. Had to get a 2d LL for the computer and the only option was them putting in the 5 line cable. Soon as rural wireless was available we jumped on board. Whenever I get around to retiring we'll drop the LL and be just cellular.

Interesting side note to the OP question. Found out after my widow mother died that the local Baby Bell kept her on a 4-party line (remember party lines and pre-dial telephones?) some 12-15 years after they did away with party lines. She was the last in the state that had a party line although there weren't any other parties on the line.


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