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Let it go and spend the money somewhere else.
We haven't had a landline since 2007 and haven't missed it once.
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RCMAN46
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Recently I read a news article where San Francisco blocked all cell phone traffic in an area because they were concerned they would not be able to control a pending riot. Without the land line you are at the mercy of the government during any type of disturbance or perceived emergency. Also much easier for them to tap into your phone conversations without the need of a wire tap permit.
Just something to think about before you give up your landline.
But I do use a Verizon home connect when we travel to Arizona for the winter. Very handy but I am concerned with what the government can do.
But still have one landline at my home base.
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W4RLR
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Dutch_12078 wrote:We ported our landline number to a Google Voice account, and have the account set to forward all calls to both of our cell phones. Caller ID helps us decide who will answer, just as it did when we had multiple phones on the landline.
Before anyone jumps in to say you can't port a landline number to Google Voice, only cell phone numbers, you're right. That is you can't do it directly. What we did, was port our landline number to a temporarily reactivated Tracfone handset we had on hand first, and then a couple of weeks later ported it from Tracfone to Google since now it was a cell phone number. If we didn't have an old Tracfone handset laying around, we would have bought the cheapest one we could find to get the job done. I second Google Voice. Our children, our doctors, and our bank is in Florida. We are spending most of our time in Tennessee. When we have to give a local number to our Tennessee contacts, they get the Google Voice number for a Chattanooga suburb. Our Florida friends and others still use our Florida cell phone numbers to call us. Google Voice rings on both my cell phone and my wife's cell phone, and will even transcribe a voice mail and send it as an e-mail. One of life's great inventions, and you can't beat the price (currently it's free!)
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W4RLR
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RCMAN46 wrote:Recently I read a news article where San Francisco blocked all cell phone traffic in an area because they were concerned they would not be able to control a pending riot. Without the land line you are at the mercy of the government during any type of disturbance or perceived emergency. Also much easier for them to tap into your phone conversations without the need of a wire tap permit.
Just something to think about before you give up your landline.
But I do use a Verizon home connect when we travel to Arizona for the winter. Very handy but I am concerned with what the government can do.
But still have one landline at my home base. As a CERT team member and a person who has had training for disasters in both the military and civilian worlds, I can tell you that the land line you think cannot be shut down by the government most certainly CAN and probably WILL be shut down in case of an emergency. Communications companies have disaster plans and priorities of service that favor the military, federal, state, and local governments, and first responders. Who do you think the phone company will restore local and long distance service to first, you or the police department?
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Jackthewonderdog
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Can't think of any emergency where the phone companies or governement would shut down any commnication service short of a popular revoltion against the govenment and then I doubt you having phone service is a pressing need. Wasn't shut during 911, or Katrina. THe only thing that shuts it is damage to the service itself and is more likely to hit cell towers then land lines. I think we are getting way off OP subject.
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SolidAxleDurango
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Jackthewonderdog wrote:..I think we are getting way off OP subject.
But this ~is~ RV.net. 
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p220sigman
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We haven't had a landline in about 7 years now and have not thought once about getting it again. I had pushed DW to ditch it for years before she finally gave in. I had already stopped answering it if it rang, because it was never a call we needed or wanted. Anyone that wanted to talk to us called on the cell phone. She finally agreed after we did a 2 month experiment of logging every incoming and outgoing call. In two months, we received something like 20 calls, all of which were solicitation calls and she made 1 call. Our bill was right at $30 with local service only, no long distance or calling features such as call waiting, etc or anything else.
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paulcardoza
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We ported out landline number to AT&T wireless the way back in the first month that LNP was implemented. Back then it was quite an effort to get it done, but once complete, we haven't looked back since.
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wa8yxm
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Cell phone is only option for RVers. I mean the extension cord for a land line or wire-internet based phone is.. Not reasonable.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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rk911
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wa8yxm wrote:Cell phone is only option for RVers. I mean the extension cord for a land line or wire-internet based phone is.. Not reasonable.
assuming that the RVer is on the move, yes. we're in a park in mesa, az. at the moment. the neighbors here are fulltimers who live in the park all year. a landline is certainly an option for them. others may spend part of the year in one spot and the rest of the year in another. landlines are an option for them as well.
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