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

[Dave Weis]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Jeffrey Ollie 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.

I'm betting your babysitter has a more advanced cell phone than you :-)

> 2) DSL (rate hikes drove us away from Mediacom a while back).

You can get a standalone loop from the local monopoly if you are out of 
our range also. It's $5 more than the DSL service itself would be but you 
can drop the voice portion of it.

dave

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