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

[Dave Weis]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Tom Pohl wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 911 still works if you discontinue 
> land line phone service.   You don't really want the babysitter calling 
> anyone else anyway :)

That might be the case elsewhere but any disconnected lines I've seen have 
no dialtone and no outbound calls whatsoever. I think some of the other 
bell companies do it differently though.

> On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:32 AM, 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
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