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

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

The primary reason I dumped the land line was long distance cost.  All
of my customers with the exception of one, are located in US Cell's
local calling area.
 
Even shopping for long distance, the lowest land line  phone bill
(including ld) I ever had was $400.00.  Switching to a cell plan with 3
phones and huge amount of shared minutes and some nationwide calling,
the most I ever pay now is $150.00, its a huge savings for me.

:) Dave






On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 16:32 +0100, Claus Niesen wrote:
> > > 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 :-)
> 
> Since Afan mentiones that he has kids, not sure what age though, the baby sitter is a thing to keep in mind.  Baby sitters may or may not have a phone and they might have the coolest phone on earth but use a crappy plan.  Our US Cellular phone works fine in our house, even from the basement but our pre-pay T-Mobil doesn't even get a connection.  That's in the city limit of Ames even.  Also 911 has a harder time locating your house if the call is from a cell phone.  So you might consider keeping a landline for the same reason you keep a fire extinguisher.  You have one, don't you?
> 
>   Claus