| Landline + good PAYG cell service According to my local E911 board, they can't reliably locate you when you call from a cell phone. I'll take their word for it over a bunch of BBR users. According to them, cell phone 911 calls often get routed to a regional 911 center for cell phones... I assume in Des Moines. Then they would have to route the call back up to Ames. And who knows if they would have the right address.
If I call from my landline, it goes a couple of miles down the street to Qwest, then less than a block to the 911 center.
I had a cell only for a few years. I'm not a moron so I don't use it while driving, and I have phone at work... I basically just used the cell as a home phone anyway. I don't have a need to have it constantly at my ear. So I went to a pay by the minute cell phone service that costs about $3 per month and got a home phone and I'm happy with it. It's nice that it "just works" and doesn't require reboots like my cell phone, and I don't worry about minutes and all that other B.S. I think this is the best of both worlds. |
