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Wife's parents still have one. MIL has a smart phone but my FIL is 84 and will never get a cell phone.
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I see people mentioning costs that's awesome what I seen. Ours are not so cheap around here mom still has hers and we're 80 acre patch from her in a different address and our basic bill was over $100 a month 20 years ago and cell phones were getting very popular. We no longer have a landline mom does hers is much cheaper different zip code
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we do... it ain't connected.. but its still there....:)
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If the current phone book is any indication, I'd say most folks have dumped the line lines. Our county has about 80,000 people and the phone book use to be between 1/2" to 3/4" thick with probably 50 or more pages of residential white pages. It now is about 1/4" thick with 9 pages of residential white pages.
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If the current phone book is any indication, I'd say most folks have dumped the line lines. Our county has about 80,000 people and the phone book use to be between 1/2" to 3/4" thick with probably 50 or more pages of residential white pages. It now is about 1/4" thick with 9 pages of residential white pages. With the internet I can’t believe that they are still printing a phone book.
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If the current phone book is any indication, I'd say most folks have dumped the line lines. Our county has about 80,000 people and the phone book use to be between 1/2" to 3/4" thick with probably 50 or more pages of residential white pages. It now is about 1/4" thick with 9 pages of residential white pages. With the internet I can’t believe that they are still printing a phone book. You can't find numbers on the internet.
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DON’T BE TOO PROUD OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR YOU’VE CONSTRUCTED. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE.
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We don't have any choice, all inter-net and T.V. is on our fiber optic line, we have it about 5 years, cell works on the South Ranch, but not very well on the North Ranch or West ranch, we use radios more than phones on the ranch. Rio7
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We're a house on the edge of the end, and cell coverage is spotty. Needless to say we have a land line at the house. We tell people all the time to not send texts, but nobody can comprehend that some folks use land lines, and they get mad as old wet hens when the texts go unanswered. Pffffftttt...
I could care less. We have cellphones, too, but call my land line if you really need to talk.
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Nope, dropped land line years ago.
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Yep. Mainly because the cell service sucks here. Don't want to depend on using VOIP if the power goes out.
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We have no choice our internet service comes through our land line.
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I keep the number to myself but we have one at the cabin. I put it in 1992 when dad was first diagnosed with Lou Gehrig disease. No cell phones work in that area of the “Quiet Zone”.
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Yep.
Same number for 43 years.
-Ken
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Yes, have landline. Yes, have phone books too.
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Yep.
No land line................no internet service.
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I miss getting on the party line with Gertie and Maybelle and talking about Luke and Laura on the General Hospital
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I miss getting on the party line with Gertie and Maybelle and talking about Luke and Laura on the General Hospital All my Chilren way mo betta dude. But no landline. Frontier told us when we moved up here that they no longer support them out here. There's a dang green box poking up out the ground in front of our house, a box on the side with the wires from the box coming too it, signs all along the road about "Buried Utilities, call before digging" but with perhaps 20 houses out this way, a couple of miles from the nearest other houses, they likely didn't want to service this line. I'd have one in a minute for when the cell service, which sucks already, goes down. As it does a few times a year. Heck, just today it was so bad the phone lost connection to the tower or some scheidt and I had to restart the dang thing just to call the neighbor. Should have just walked over, but then like Jim driving 40 miles to talk to the neighbor about the rat he caught in the barn, I'd get tied up being personable and such and having a cup of coffee and talking for the afternoon.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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We still have one at the insistence of my wife.
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