[Cialug] OT: Any good reason not to kill land phone line?

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

I've never owned a land-line.  All through college (well, they give
you one in the dorms I guess...) and now out, owning a home and
married.  The only annoyance I've found to not having a phone line is
when I leave my cell phone in the basement and I'm upstairs when it
goes off :(.  It's a long run through the house to get it when it
rings.  But that's why I'm working on an asterisk system to pick up my
cell calls and pass them through the house's wiring!  :)!!! Ain't
computers great!

On Nov 16, 2007 8:46 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> On 11/16/07, afan pasalic <afan at afan.net> wrote:
> > Actually, one more question: how many of you that don't use land phone
> > line have family, with kids? For singles is much easier, but I have
> > three troublemakers (wife and 2 boys).
> > She has her cell and kids are still n age they don't make a lot of
> > calls, mostly using our cells.
> >
> > I'm assuming the case is the same?
>
> The two reasons that I don't drop my land line are:
>
> 1) Having a phone available for the babysitter in case of emergency.
>
> 2) DSL (rate hikes drove us away from Mediacom a while back).
>
> Although, it'd be cheap enough to add a 3rd cell phone to our family
> plan to take care of #1.
>
> My kids are too young yet to be making a lot of phone calls.  My wife
> and I haven't decided when the kids will be old enough for their own
> cell phone.
>
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