How many people still have a land-line?

[warrior queen]

Almost everyone I know has switched over to mobile phones for household phone communications.
Just wondering how many people here have a fixed home phone?
We are a mobile phone family. Every member of the home has a mobile, and everyone has their own tethering option with their own data limits for internet. No house phone here.

 

[shewantsmore]

we have 2 phones in our house,one up and one downstairs.did not think it was that unusual to still have a land line

 

[warrior queen]

Apparently, nearly 25% of households in Oz have ditched landlines, and use only mobiles.

 

[shoulderblade]

I still have a land line. Comes paid for at the place I rent. Would consider dropping it if that were not the case.

You cannot lose a landline phone.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We no longer have one.

 

[kbate]

We kept ours, where we live a landline is the only way to get any semblance of high-speed internet without going to Satellite.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm on my kid's iPhone personal hotspot...



Are you saying that the fucking Bootheel has cell towers and you don't?

 

[lovetoread]

I just got one, it came with the interwebz.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Funny thing is, I can't get the cable company to string a line out to where we live...



WE have to pay for it.

 

[kbate]

If you want to try internet with one bar - go ahead. We have "unfettered open view" at the request of the very rich who have beaten every cell tower proposal in my little zone back into planning stage. Even the one where the Volunteer Fire Department antenna is replaced with a cell tower got nixed because it was over the 80 foot limit on structures.

I have to drive several miles to get a full cell signal and make a reliable call.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If you want to try internet with one bar - go ahead. We have "unfettered open view" at the request of the very rich who have beaten every cell tower proposal in my little zone back into planning stage. Even the one where the Volunteer Fire Department antenna is replaced with a cell tower got nixed because it was over the 80 foot limit on structures.

I have to drive several miles to get a full cell signal and make a reliable call.

I have full bars right now...


*chuckle*


You use all the power of the RED GREEN movement to stop coal...

... and then when it bites you on the ass. ~smirk~

We had this conversation about zoning and signs some years back, you seemed so pro them...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When was the last time you saw a pay phone?

 

[warrior queen]

Out here, there is no adsl or cable.
We do have the old-fashioned copper phone lines, but all internet is either 3G or satellite.
We won't get the National Broadband Network here either... just another satellite connection at horrendous expense.
I will stay with my mobile phone internet connection, because it works and is more than fast enough.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When was the last time you saw a pay phone?

On Pawn Stars

 

[Saint Peter]

My internet comes over the land line. It could come from a number of places. The phone goes along for the ride.

 

[kbate]

I have full bars right now...

You use all the power of the RED GREEN movement to stop coal...

... and then when it bites you on the ass. ~smirk~

We had this conversation about zoning and signs some years back, you seemed so pro them...

I am not complaining about our cell situation only remarking on the reason I have not dropped my landline. As long as the DSL still works, I have no need for 4G or Satellite. I choose to live here and expect eventually time will catch us - the Yankees did in 1864, electricity did in 1949, the highway did in 1988 and I expect cell phones will in 2024.

I personally would lease land to the cell companies to put up towers if doing so would not make me pariah.

For their part, the cell companies refuse to even talk about any tower less than 140 feet tall when they could have 80 footers up all over the place without a fight.

 

[Saint Peter]

Put up a wind turbine. Hide the cell antenna in the mast.

Good coverage. Good greenie feelies.

Everybody wins.

 

[ivantheterrible]

i do. here if you wish to have a cellphone you MIGHT get one bar depending on where you are at.
found out after the derecho event earlier this month many people did not have cell service at all.
and i found out that when there is no electricity you can still make a phone call if you have an old rotary phone. touch tone phones require electricity.
i have no desire to ever own a cellphone.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I am not complaining about our cell situation only remarking on the reason I have not dropped my landline. As long as the DSL still works, I have no need for 4G or Satellite. I choose to live here and expect eventually time will catch us - the Yankees did in 1864, electricity did in 1949, the highway did in 1988 and I expect cell phones will in 2024.

I personally would lease land to the cell companies to put up towers if doing so would not make me pariah.

For their part, the cell companies refuse to even talk about any tower less than 140 feet tall when they could have 80 footers up all over the place without a fight.

Is there any chance, any chance at all, considering your backwoods environ, that the company might actually know a little bit more about delivering efficient service to your area than the zoners?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Put up a wind turbine. Hide the cell antenna in the mast.

Good coverage. Good greenie feelies.

Everybody wins.

As long as it's an 80 foot turbine.

 

[kbate]

Is there any chance, any chance at all, considering your backwoods environ, that the company might actually know a little bit more about delivering efficient service to your area than the zoners?

Yes, I am certain that they do, but efficient is more about their bottom line (one lease, one tower) than about reality; we don't want a huge mast on land that has been protected from development since the 1780s. You know, something called "A Portion for Foxes".

If the cell companies want us as their customers, they will come up with a way to install that meets our requirements. If not, we'll continue with our ancient landlines, or satellite connections. You know, that meet the market or lose to your competition thing.

 

[Saint Peter]

"We have a three foot tower. Unfortunately it is super high power and sterilizes foxes."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, I am certain that they do, but efficient is more about their bottom line (one lease, one tower) than about reality; we don't want a huge mast on land that has been protected from development since the 1780s. You know, something called "A Portion for Foxes".

If the cell companies want us as their customers, they will come up with a way to install that meets our requirements. If not, we'll continue with our ancient landlines, or satellite connections. You know, that meet the market or lose to your competition thing.

I don't think they need you as customers...

 

[kbate]

I don't think they need you as customers...

Apparently not bad enough to compromise. It isn't as if we don't all have cell phones anyway, and iPhones and iPads and Kindles and all the rest, we just provide a market for the home cell booster systems and so on.

I expect that a Homeland Security decree will be the end of our little zone sooner rather than later. Some kind of 100% cell coverage mandate along with some federal eminent domain to get past the county zoning. It will be lauded as making it easier to call 'First Responders' and for them to home in on Cell Phones by GPS if necessary.

 

[tactful]

Most of the interstate roads, state and city roads, as well as busy streeets have them, because some people just don't know how and where to drive.