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

[Tom Pohl]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Dave Weis wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Dang!  When I lived in South Carolina 911 worked on a disconnected  
line.  Actually, I even signed up for phone service using the  
disconnected line!

-Tom