jared564564
@optonline.net | first post ever
getting rid of landlines is a good thing in my opinion |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
Premium
join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
 ·Armstrong Zoom In..
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Well good.
When you need 911 and they need to pinpoint your info, then we'll see what you think. Internet connection go down? So will you're VOIP and don't even get me started on cell phones.
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tacobell7193
join:2004-01-06
Ashland, OH | Why?
we would still have DSL if we could get it unbundeled. why dont they do that? atleast they could keep some money from the customer |
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chris
focus
Premium
join:2000-08-13
Middletown, CT | reply to dslwanter
Re: Well good.
What about phone service from the cable companies? I have to believe that is pretty reliable (although I could be wrong). You could port your number - goodbye landline... |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
Premium
join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
·AT&T Midwest
| said by chris  :What about phone service from the cable companies? I have to believe that is pretty reliable (although I could be wrong). You could port your number - goodbye landline... errrmmm thats VOIP. Nothing can be a replacement for the landline, nothing. Remember, your landline doesn't rely on electricity or signal strength.
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Admj
join:2001-01-17
Placentia, CA | reply to jared564564
Unbundle our landlines
Yes get rid of the landlines. Why should we pay for a landline if we just want DSL?
More money for the Bells! |
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crispytreat
join:2001-06-13
Charlotte, NC | reply to tacobell7193
Re: Why?
I would ditch landline if I could get collect calls some other way. Anyone have any ideas? As far as I know voip and cell do not work. |
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BlitzenZeus
Burnt Out Cynic
Premium,MVM
join:2000-01-13
Beaverton, OR
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Verizon Online DSL
| Voip is a bad idea, its dependent on broadband
I would not trust only voip, power outages, bad E911 routing, etc... Even the phone service provided by cable companies, no power, no phone service...
I only have local access on my landline, and few features so it doesn't cost very much, however its more of a message phone for those who I don't want to give my cell phone number too than anything else.
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Admj
join:2001-01-17
Placentia, CA
|  reply to tacobell7193
Re: Why?
 If the phone companies can lower their DSL pricing to $26.95 per month for the 1st year, why can’t they just unbundled the landlines if we just want DSL!!!
»www02.sbc.com/DSL_new/content_ne···2180B0S0 |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs:   | reply to BlitzenZeus
Re: Voip is a bad idea, its dependent on broadband
E911 is a joke. That is the ONLY reason why I still have it. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
1 edit | reply to dslwanter
Re: Well good.
Uhh, I have Comcast Digital Phone Service, it is NOT VoIP!
I've had it for 10? 12? years now...
»www.comcast.com/Support/Corp411/···9_0.html
*NOT* VoIP.
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RDins
@attbi.com
| reply to BlitzenZeus
Re: Voip is a bad idea, its dependent on broadband
I haven't had a land line in 3 years, cell only (most calls are at night for me so the unlimted nights/weekends sprint pcs plan works great for 35 bucks).
The only reason I would even want a land line is as a backup ISP connection in case my cable is out, but that doesn't happen very often anymore.... actually it hasn't happened in almost 2 years now. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to Admj
Re: Why?
don't forget $19.95 if you are an All Distance Customer with SBC  |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou
1 edit | reply to dslwanter
Re: Well good.
"errrmmm", that's not VoIP. It's actually runs over a different signal path than HSI service. Kinda like getting phone/DSL service over a RT.
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entropy1
Premium
join:2002-09-25 | reply to dadkins
Haha! That's awesome. |
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ebubman
join:2002-01-17
Enola, PA
·Comcast
 ·Vonage
| what's a landline?
we punted our verizon landline out the front door approx 2 yrs ago. we use gsm cell phones for all voice communications & comcast for the isp thing. have we ever missed our landlines? not for a single second. we keep a prepay attws free2go line ($10 every 90 days) as a junk phone # we hand out to stores & those who like to get our #. we never answer it. i check the voice mail every week. it makes a great buffer phone. landlines are so early 1900s. verizon & the telcos would have us believe that landlines are indispensible; nothing could be further from the truth. insisting on a landline is much like insisting upon neat lines of deck chairs on the titanic; ain't much of a future in it. bub |
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the dozer
Premium
join:2004-04-12
Douglasville, GA
| reply to chris
Re: Well good.
What about phone service from the cable companies? I have to believe that is pretty reliable (although I could be wrong). You could port your number - goodbye landline...
...hardly.....cable goes down more likely everyhing else will also. nothing is more reliable than phone....my phone even worked when the power was out.... |
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rtherocks
Premium
join:2002-09-28
Fort Lauderdale, FL
clubs: | Ditching The Bells
I drop ed my land line a year ago I now use only my cell phone but I am thinking of getting VoIP.I will not go back to the Bellsouth.Thay had there run good riddens. |
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Andrew J
Premium
join:2001-11-09
Lancaster, PA
clubs: | reply to RDins
Re: Voip is a bad idea, its dependent on broadband
Don't have only since my TiVo needs a land line. |
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John Galt
Forward, March
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
·CenturyLink
| reply to dslwanter
Re: Well good.
said by dslwanter :Remember, your landline doesn't rely on electricity... What you actually mean is that it does not rely on utility power...the landline phone uses electricity from batteries located at the Central Office (CO).
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