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Do you have a house-phone?
Yes 21 (72.4%)
No 8 (27.6%)
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Do you have a house-phone?
Topic Started: May 18 2008, 10:14 AM (206 Views)
pianojerome
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All I have is a cell-phone, and I don't plan on getting a "real" phone in the future... seems rather unnecessary to me to have both.
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Luke's Dad
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When I was working outside of the store, I needed a cell phone. So my wife and I only had cell phones. Now that I'm working from a permanent location, I'm weeding the cell phone out of my life and we have a regular phone now. I'm hoping to get my cell phone usage down to just having a prepayed card for the cell phone and only using it for emergencies.
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sue
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Yes, I've always had one, just because that was the norm, and the expected thing for so long. I do wonder sometimes, if we could do without. I can't imagine bothering with a land line if I was young and single, and likely to move fairly often.
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LWpianistin
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Nope. Neither do my roommates. I've lived here for 2 years, going to move somewhere (for grad school) next year....too much moving, and why bother when I always have my cell phone with me?
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Optimistic
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No land line here.
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jon-nyc
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I have it, and I'd love to get rid of it, but I keep it because cell phone sound quality sucks so much.

I take calls on my cell but almost always call the person back from a land line.
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RosemaryTwo
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I agree with Jon. For any conversation longer than 2 minutes, I need a land line.
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dolmansaxlil
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I have one because air time is so expensive to talk to Rob. I doubt we'll ever completely get rid of the landline, unless they make a Canada/US cell plan that has unlimited time.
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Axtremus
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dolmansaxlil
May 18 2008, 07:09 PM
I have one because air time is so expensive to talk to Rob.  I doubt we'll ever completely get rid of the landline, unless they make a Canada/US cell plan that has unlimited time.

Got broadband at (both) homes?
Ever considered Skype?
Video telephony works pretty well over Skype too, if you really want to see each other that often. :D

(Oh, yeah, I have a landline. I still trust the landline more than the wireless stuff.)
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Larry
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I hate telephones. If I need to call someone, then I'll use one. If select people need to call me, then I'll answer. But if I don't recognize the number calling me, I don't answer it. Very few people have my cell #, and the few who do are sworn to secrecy. If I'm home, the cell is turned off. If I'm out but busy and don't want to be bothered, the cell phone is off. At home, the land line has very soft ringers on the phones, you can barely hear them. 99% of the time the calls go into voice mail, and when *I* decide, I listen to them, call the ones I want to talk to, and delete the rest.

One of these days..... *soon*.... the land line will be history, the cell phone will be it, and woe to the person who calls it with anything less than to tell me of the coming nuclear explosion.....

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dolmansaxlil
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Rob has something similar. So largely, he does the calling. But I give him a wake up call every morning. Since it takes a good 30 minutes for him to become coherant :rolleyes: I avoid calling otherwise so I don't go over my minutes.

I considered getting one of the on-line services where you can have a phone number in another city (and getting a Boston number) but then debated because of the 911 issues. If it were just me, I wouldn't worry, but with Liam...
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Riley
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dolmansaxlil
May 18 2008, 07:57 PM
Rob has something similar. So largely, he does the calling. But I give him a wake up call every morning. Since it takes a good 30 minutes for him to become coherant :rolleyes: I avoid calling otherwise so I don't go over my minutes.

I considered getting one of the on-line services where you can have a phone number in another city (and getting a Boston number) but then debated because of the 911 issues. If it were just me, I wouldn't worry, but with Liam...

If you still had a cell phone, couldn't you use that for 911?
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dolmansaxlil
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That would mean that i'd have to make sure it was always charged rather than forgetting about it in the bottom of my purse until someone says, "Hey, did you get my voicemail?"
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Frank_W
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I prefer a phone larger than a damn credit card. I despise cell phones. No, really. I fukking LOATHE them. :veryangry: A persistent fantasy of mine, is to be blasting down the highway at 80mph in the Jeep with no doors, and spike that futhermucker against the median wall. :mad2:


Other than that, I like them okay.
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
dolmansaxlil
May 18 2008, 09:41 PM
That would mean that i'd have to make sure it was always charged rather than forgetting about it in the bottom of my purse until someone says, "Hey, did you get my voicemail?"
:leaving:

You must be related to my wife...
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
dolmansaxlil
May 18 2008, 05:41 PM
That would mean that i'd have to make sure it was always charged rather than forgetting about it in the bottom of my purse until someone says, "Hey, did you get my voicemail?"
:leaving:

I never answer, or even listen to my voicemail.

Literally never.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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The 89th Key
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Nope - only use my cell, at home or out.

And Aqua is right...he never checks his voicemail. It's not rude at all, in fact I enjoyed learning about that for the first time when I suddenly received a bunch of "returned" voicemails 60 days after leaving them. :smokin:
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Klaus
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My "landline" phone costs exactly 0.00 Euro per month, and national calls cost exactly 0.00 Euro per minute. Why should I use an expensive cell phone if I'm home?
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