On 11/28/2012 1:21 AM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:On 11/27/2012 10:48 AM, David Schmidt wrote:On 11/27/2012 10:14 AM, Egan Ford wrote:On 11/26/12 11:21 PM, Kevin wrote:we don't even have land linesI've still got one. How else am I going to use my acoustic coupler or fax machine? :-)Ditto. It's the _only_ system in my house (or anywhere I've experienced, really) with five nines of uptime.Now that I've had a few years of cell phone ownership under my belt (I was a die-hard holdout), there's not a chance I'd leave myself without copper-wire service and at least one corded phone. In terms of reliability, POTS is to cell service as an IBM Z-Series mainframe is to a store-bought PeeCee.
Another generational thing. ;-)
I think that land lines are a generational thing. As age goes down, the fraction of cellphone-only users goes up dramatically.
Yep. Just so fate could giggle at me, the power went out on us last night for a few hours. Had a nice time with the family in the candle light; being in the Southeastern US, we are accustomed to hurricane preparation. Anyway, back to fate - my cell phone was almost dead, until I flipped it open... then it started its plaintive "I'm not quite dead yet" fatal cry. I had to turn it off to put it out of its misery. The one fully corded telephone worked fine for us to communicate with our neighbors and power company. It wouldn't have been horrible without it, but it sure is nice to have...