So I shut off my land-line last night...

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I was paying the bill over the phone (formerly SBC, now AT&T), and the woman asked if there was anything else she could help me with. I said "Yes, shut it off." So she did.

I don't know why I kept it this long. I'd had the number for a few years, and I think it was mostly nostalgia. However, I was paying like $40 a month to get a handful of telemarketing calls... I liked the sound quality, but I rarely used it.

Goodbye 663-9166. RIP.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I still have mine and I know Mike Daddino still has his. Yay us!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

haven't had one in years although I'm considering it b/c I hate phone calls and cells are too high.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

cell phones are the worst. i just got a landline put back in, and i feel like a kid in a candy store. wow, i can actually talk for five goddamm minutes without being like "HEY ARE YOU THERE! WAIT...I CAN HEAR YOU, BUT CAN YOU HEAR ME? I SLEPT WITH YOUR MOM. YOU WHAT? I SLEPT WITH YOUR MOM. OKAY I CAN HEAR YOU NOW YOU PRICK."

― Mark Danjer (Danjer), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I know, my cell is awful and drops out all the time. Still...

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i know, paying two bills is also the worst. i just hate it when new technologies make you take a step backwards in usability.

― Mark Danjer (Danjer), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I like the way they just cut it off for you! No hard sell!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Still cell-free; they'll have to pry one INTO my cold, dead hands...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

awwww..i just remembered when i use to have a landline and i'd talk on the phone with boys in my room. this was like 2 years ago.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping they would beg me to stay, "You're such a great customer, how about four months free, PLEASE STAY!!" but it was cold and clinical and boom! I made one last nostaligic call to the GF but it was dead this morning.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Mobile phones are just a source of anxiety. They don't ring, and when they do ring I hate talking on them, as I worry about radiation.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

i still have my landline... mtl is like the last bastion of people who don't all have cell phones

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

I worry about radiation.

yes, but so convenient.

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I hate that I get wonderful cell reception everywhere. Everywhere except my own apartment! I have to perch myself on one arm of the couch while leaning in an approximately 63 degree angle towards the middle pane of my living room window in order to make a call.

― jonviachicago, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

cell phone users = assholes

I got the 1000 minute T-mobile deal w/$30 rebate for emergencies last December. It's always turned off. I still have a little over 960 minutes left. Most of the 40 minutes I used were from original novelty calling like, "hey, you need me to pick anything up at the store?" and "I'm going to be in late today" but that wore off real quick.

― Stop Pretending You Enjoy Life, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I have Ghetto PCS and it sucks. It only works right in San Francisco and Oakland but as soon as you leave town it quits working. But no contract, and no minutes.

I'm thinking about moving to prepay, I use it so infrequently.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I finally switched over to a cell phone, and so far I have no complaints. Except maybe that I liked my old landline's number, and what it spelled out, and I'd had it for like five years. But it was mostly telemarketers calling. Things are much more peaceful now.

And Cingular has given me great reception pretty much everywhere, including a few random rural places in Montana where there didn't seem to be a town for miles.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

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you got 1000 minutes when you dont even use the phone?? thats kinda crazy.

what wireless company are you people upthread with where you cant hear and calls are dropped that often? i thought they sorted that shit out in the early early 00's. i got my first cellphone in 2003, been with 3 different wireless companies, and ive never had trouble hearing a call.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

But it was mostly telemarketers calling. Things are much more peaceful now.

I kinda don't get this, in that I did the 'DO NOT CALL' thing a while back and said calls dropped to absolute zero.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

you got 1000 minutes when you dont even use the phone?? thats kinda crazy.
It was $100 for a whole year, phone was $29, I think, after rebate. I had planned to use it for my employment, but I'm too lazy to send out resumes at the moment. It was also a tax write-off.

― Stop Pretending You Enjoy Life, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I dumped my landline two and a half years ago. Have never missed it. And very rarely do I have problems w/cell reception. I've even used it up in Shenandoah National Park and gotten fine, clear reception. Granted, I was on top of a peak at the end of a trail, with a 360-degree horizon, but still.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Ned, I too signed the FTC do not call list and it didn't do shit. I mention it to them and they hang up, that's about it.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

*shrug* Ya got me!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

ive worked two telemarketing jobs and the do not call list was completely ignored in both cases.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004TKVD.01._AA260_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I'm buying a CB radio in any case. Fuck cellphones, fuck the internet.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

telemarketers call cells too. thats way more annoying.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

HEY, I don't own a...oh, Ned beat me to it.

It is in my best interests to NOT be reachable at all times.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

You can turn off the cell phone, too.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Chantrelle used to have my Oakland number. I don't know what she did for a living, but some shady dudes call for her at weird hours, ususally from Sacramento.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

id love not to have a landline if only to avoid that freakin flashing red light on the answering machine when i come home. answering machines suck.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i havent had a landline for years now (ok, just three), have no problem with my cell, and it's quite cheap with the family plan.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

can you get dsl without a landline these days?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Goodbye 663-9166. RIP.

That's a Little Rock prefix! MOhawk-3!

We still have a landline. I still have a hard time hearing anything on a cellphone for any extended amount of time. I also like using the speakerphone to call the weather in the mornings. Plus, we still have a dial-up connection.

When I moved over here, the phone company tried to give me some gay-ass prefix with a 0 in the middle. I said no, I want the original, THE CLASSIC, prefix. And now my number begins with SKyline-5!

Call (501) 433-1037 for an asskicking.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Most of the 40 minutes I used were from original novelty calling like, "hey, you need me to pick anything up at the store?" and "I'm going to be in late today" but that wore off real quick.

yeah most of us got over that novelty ten years ago.

The last few years I had a landline there was no telephone set up to it so once I finally got high-speed internet there was no reason to have it anymore.

I have no problems with cell reception. I just hate using the telephone so it's a lot to pay every month for very little usage.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine was psyched that he recently got an email address.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Is this friend your grandfater?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I have DSL with no landline, yes.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

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― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Old folks should not get email unless they're given a brief training on the ethics of forwarding stupid Dalai Lama luck prayers and shit like that.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

have no problems with cell reception. I just hate using the telephone so it's a lot to pay every month for very little usage.

i totally get what youre saying. for me i fear the phone because i fear bad news which is why i hate answering machines.
i had a sweet deal in australia with my cell company. i started out with the monster ex-govt own telco, telstra, and bought myself out to switch to virginmobile prepaid. i went from a $300+ bill a month to a sweet $15 prepaid card every 6 weeks (australian cells work on $ rather than minutes). free everything and the international calls were cheaper than local calls. 23 cents a minute to the USA. i never told anyone about it. it was my little cellco gold secret.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I get great cell reception - from Quebec. Trouble is, I'm in Vermont and any calls I make locally are charged a roaming fee. I could easily live without ANY phone, but the wife's workplace calls here frequently.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

no, not a gramps. tho he sorta dresses like one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Got rid of the land line a long time ago, now I'm ready to get rid of the cell too. Talk to me by email otherwise you don't exist...

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

yeah most of us got over that novelty ten years ago.

Yeah, no shit. Now you've moved on to being assholes who have long conversations in public.

― Stop Pretending You Enjoy Life, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

no, considering that by what I've stated I'm pretty much like quartz up there. I do however have a very low tolerance for over-generalizing dumbfucks though.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I've never been crazy about cell phones, but turning off my landline four years ago has saved me a ton of money.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I have DSL with no landline, yes.

Wait, how?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

they used to run dsl into the house via a seperate line completely.

I want to get rid of our landline, we pay $40 a month, barely use it, I hate the phone...but I've had the same number for....16 years!!! and I'm also afraid that if the power went out my cell phone would die and I wouldn't be able to call for...what? I don't know! I have this fear though. Like I live in the fucking mountains or something. If the power went out I'd just walk outside.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

dude i love my cell phone. my friends call me all the time!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I hate my cell phone. my friends call. all. the. time!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

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Do the same people who bitch about people talking loudly in public on cellphones also bitch about people talking loudly to, like, other people in public? What's the difference whether some rude yutz is shouting into his phone or into his friend's ear? Rude is rude, the tech involved is irrelevant.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

People tend to speak louder when they're talking to someone on a cellphone as opposed to talking to them in person.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

But people talk loud because they're on a cellphone. Errm, like he said.

I get annoyed at other's behavior when it's really none of my business:

1) A couple walking together, both talking on their phones and ignoring each other, or:
2) People talking on the phone when they're out excercising. Can't you take a break for a few goddamn minutes? Have some time for yourself, be alone with your thoughts, hang it up already. Sheesh.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

hating cellphones is so fucking '00. get over it.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

We just hate most communication. Semaphore or death.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

i get annoyed at other people for so many reasons I can't even enumerate them, and most of them are groundless and utterly subjective.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Getting over it is so '80s. Get with it.

― Stop Pretending You Enjoy Life, Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

hating cellphones is so fucking '00. get over it.

Yes, but what's old is new again.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a cellphone, but I know many people who do. The phrase 'I'm not sure how many minutes I have left!" is a little bit creepy. Like, what, you are going to die?
I also dislike people who call me when they have some minutes (death is not imminent, I assume), from their cars and then describe the traffic. I'm just sitting at home, talking on the phone, so descriptions of near death experiences on the road (turnpike, highway) might make me wish you hadn't called.
There was a description of a bad accident involving an SUV and several cars - the woman who was driving the SUV lost her arm. The arm was found clutching a cell phone.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

your experiences sound outside the norm

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

i "borrow" wi-fi and use skype

How charming, stealing expensive internet off someone else.

I am guessing people dropping landlines dont use DSL, rather cable? Or steal other peoples wireless, like Dan does.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

I use DSL but that's because my cable types were feebs when I moved here; otherwise I'd still be cabling away without a worry. But seeing as I don't watch TV at all whereas I still use the phone, it's a logical enough approach to go DSL in my instance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

The city of San Francisco is going to be free wi-fi by the end of the year, we'll see how that goes.

I need a landline for my building entry.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

G*g*x, is this you? I've been trying to figure out who the hell you are.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Dude this is the point where I do that thing where you slap my hand kind of awkwardly against my chest and go "BUHHHHHH" in the universal "RETARD" sign at you, Ned. g! was never a legendary wakeboarder!! WTF.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 16 March 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

I would keep a landline around, if only for local calls. I don't trust VOIP for the following reasons:
-if you have cable internet, and the cable goes out, you're screwed.
-if the power goes out, and you have a desktop pc, you're screwed.
-911 service hasn't been properly implemented on VOIP.

Going solely to a cellphone is only slightly better. I still get the "network busy" message at times when trying to place a call, and calls drop out without warning even when the cell signal is good.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)

VOIP is also terrible if you havent set yr connection and router up to give bandwidth priority to the VOIP calls - if you're bittorrenting or somesuch and a call comes in or you place one, forget any level of decent call quality - it'll drop out, stutter, and may not even connect at all.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

g! was never a legendary wakeboarder!!

Now if I knew what a wakeboarder was I'd be able to respond to that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:52 (twenty years ago)

I can't cut if off because it's necessary for my DSL and on top of that now it's FREE to call after 5 (and before 8 am) and on weekends!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't get any cell phone reception in my house.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

On a cellphone I can tell people I'm going into a tunnel and have to hang up on them. Back when I used a landline I had to make up a new lie every time.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't they be wondering why you didn't call them back when the tunnel ended?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I live in the tunnels.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Fair play.

I think the "my battery's running out" is a safer bet though.

I don't know what the situation is like in the States, but over here, it still costs a lot more to ring a mobile than another landline. So people who only have mobiles are sometimes thought a little selfish. I only have a mobile these days, and feel uneasy when people ring me for long calls. I did get a landline number with VOIP, but couldn't get the phone adapter to work and the drop-out rate on the X-Lite softphone thing was unacceptable.

I think I might just get a mobile contract with plenty of free minutes and try to make sure it's usually me who makes the long calls.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

you mean if you're calling a mobile from a landline it's going to cost you more than calling another landline? that's madness.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Well that's the way things work over here.

You have your own crazy things like paying to receive SMS messages, no? Or at least you used to.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Check out how much more expensive it is to call UK mobile numbers than landlines using skype

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

"you mean if you're calling a mobile from a landline it's going to cost you more than calling another landline? "

You mean it costs the same in your country? Fuck me. Here it's more expensive.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

yes, assuming the call isn't long-distance phones here don't distingush between what type of phone you're making a call to. I'm not sure how many plans still charge for text msgs. I think my plans have given me so many free messages per month and then after that it's like a dime each or something. my current plan could be unlimited for all I know. Nobody text messages here.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

yes, assuming the call isn't long-distance phones here don't distingush between what type of phone you're making a call to.

Wait, are there "long-distance" calls to cellphones in the States, or are you just talking about landlines?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

cellphones I don't think it makes a difference (at least not with any I've had). Landlines, yes.

man, phones suck!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

actually it could be the same here. i don't like to call anyway so i don't know about the rates. i prefer texting. the worst is skype. i do it with my parents but that's it.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

OK the way it works is that every phone gets an area code. If you area code on your cell phone is "local" for your caller (ie you have an NYC cell phone and your caller is also in NYC) then it costs the same as calling any phone, just as long as that phone is also in NYC. It doesn't matter where YOU physically are, you can be in Tahiti for all the phone company cares.

However, if someone calls you from Arizona and your cell phone is NYC area code, it is long distance for them, even if you are physically standing next to them at the time.

So it doesn't distinguish between cell and land lines, just whatever area of the country your phone number claims you are located in.

I live in Washington DC and stubbornly have kept my NYC cell phone so it's all long distance round these parts.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't own a cell phone, have a computer at home or subscribe to cable. I therefore decree myself better than everyone on this thread.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

but you live in kansas...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I think it works that way in the US because there you get charged for RECEIVING calls on your mobile, which is not the case in Europe, innit?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

australia either. you get charged airtime and if its long distance probably a call delivery rate too.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

"I think it works that way in the US because there you get charged for RECEIVING calls on your mobile, which is not the case in Europe, innit?"

WTF! No of course not.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

In the UK mobiles have their own non-geographic STD codes, (07[7-9]%), they don't go on your local area code. I suppose in the US they don't charge more for calling a mobile cos you wouldn't know it was a mobile from looking at the number, so it would be unfair?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

usually if you are calling a mobile from another mobile and you both have the same provider, it doesn't cost you anything (well, it depends on your provider and package, but it doesn't cost me any minutes to do this, I don't think. or I have some outrageously huge number of minutes per month). generally europe's pacakges for mobiles are more affordable than the US's. but you have to pay more for gas so whatever

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

My cell is flat-fee, unlimited nationwide calling, I could talk to Florida all day everyday and still pay the same (about $40 a month).

― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

in the US because there you get charged for RECEIVING calls on your mobile

Can someone tell me if this is ever actually true?! The only time you get charged for receiving calls with UK providers is if you take your phone abroad.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Your minutes get reduced if you are on the phone, regardless of whether you made the call or someone else called you, yes.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Woo! So calling someone up is kind of like robbing them. Crazy!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

this is why I don't answer my phone!

(also b/c I hate talking on it.)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

One provider over here had actually started paying customers to receive calls. Not sure how that works as a business model, for calls that don't originate with that company, but hey. It's a funny old game.

http://www.three.co.uk/threefiles/images/home/FebC975OfferTop.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

"seperately"?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm definitely not signing up with them. Amateurs.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

We have a land-line, some form of VOIP (through the Wanadoo Livebox) and what we Brits amusingly call "mobiles". Or field telephones, if you will.

The land-line is there so we can receive calls without giving out the rip-off 0845 number that comes with the Wanadoo line; it's also there if we ever need to call 112 or 999. The other handset plugged into the Livebox gives fairly appalling sound quality (I got a rating of 4.2/5.0 from some TestYourVOIP website but obviously that's not testing the analogue phone connection) - it's rather disturbing to hear your mother in crunchy lo-bitrate digital. It's like hearing Cher through an autotuner. But, hey, it's very cheap. Unlike Cher.

I've only ever been a PAYG Orange mobile user and back in the golden days of Text Savers, I could make a £50 top-up last nearly three years. In the first two days in our new house (without a land-line or VOIP in place), I used my mobile to call utility companies and the like and it cost me BIG.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, don't talk to me about the golden days of Text Savers. Or love.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

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