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Post# 382482 12/10/2017 at 23:20 (2,325 days old) by vacuumlad1650  (Wauponsee, IL) |
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"A gracious Hello...this is Miss Tomlin, from the Telephone company...Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?"
I figured this would be a fitting title for a Thread regarding Vacuum Collectors and Landline. It's recently been brought to my attention that people are getting rid of their landlines. We've had the same number since we moved into this house, 26 years ago. My maternal Grandfather is retired from 40 years at Illinois Bell, so Mother's whole family still has, and uses Landline. I thought it would be interesting to hear who still does, versus doesn't have Landline. I use ours daily, and only use my Western Electric telephones on it. I just prefer it to my oversized, unreliable Cell Phone. I'm a part of that awkward age group, so many are surprised I prefer Landline. When I was little, everyone had Landline and only adults had Cell Phones. I come from a Blue Collar family, so nobody had a Smartphone until this past year. We didn't need it then, and it's still more of a novelty now. Most people my age prefer their cell...if I'm at home, you're lucky to reach me on that! I'll answer the landline by the 3rd ring! Anyways, enough of my babbling... Thoughts? | ||
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Post# 382483 , Reply# 1 12/10/2017 at 23:22 (2,325 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 382496 , Reply# 3 12/11/2017 at 08:42 (2,325 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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"Is this Mr Hoover,-- --Mr Jedgar Hoover?---I just love your vacuum cleaners!" | ||
| Post# 382498 , Reply# 4 12/11/2017 at 09:37 (2,325 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I last had a landline in 2008 but the only calls I got on it were robo sales calls. Real people only called my cell so I got rid of the landline and haven't missed it one little bit. I live alone and it just makes more sense to be able to take my phone with me wherever I go. I was a fairly late adopter of smartphones. I stuck with my Motorola RAZR (best flip phone ever made) until the end of 2011 when I got my first Android smart phone. I finally crossed over to an iPhone a year ago and immediately wondered why I waited so long to do so. When I switched to the iPhone, I also left AT&T behind as my phone carrier and dropped them for Internet and TV a few months later. I just got of their lying ways and customer (dis)service. Sadly, Lily Tomlin got it absolutely right all those years ago when she said "We don't care. We don't have to care. We're the phone company".
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| Post# 382501 , Reply# 5 12/11/2017 at 10:08 (2,325 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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My Aunt Has the same number since Lenoir NC put in the dialing system, 1954... | ||
| Post# 382502 , Reply# 6 12/11/2017 at 10:48 (2,325 days old) by FCS3 (Hawaii) | ||
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Love the Landline I had a 1938 Stromberg-Carlson fitted for a modern Landline wall connection. It had the most beautiful subtle chimes when it rang. But when they went "digital", nobody could hear me clearly, and they sounded like they were 10 feet from their phone when talking. Progress!? | ||
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Post# 382516 , Reply# 9 12/11/2017 at 18:49 (2,325 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 382525 , Reply# 10 12/11/2017 at 21:51 (2,324 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada) | ||
Well, I have stuck to landline phone for now, have not caught the itch to get a cellphone yet. But, with a twist....I have MagicJack instead, which is a ultra-cheap form of VoiP service. $45 CDN a year, all the features & North American long distance included. I use it plugged into my internet router & find it works best that way. You can plug it into the USB port of a laptop & use it with wifi internet, but I have found it's not so clear & crisp using it with wifi....works much better with it plugged into the router, same clarity as a landline. I use it with a pair of Panasonic cordless phones, & I don't think I could ever be talked into going back to a landline, or buying a cellphone.
Rob | ||
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Post# 382556 , Reply# 14 12/12/2017 at 15:20 (2,324 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 382563 , Reply# 15 12/12/2017 at 18:02 (2,324 days old) by jimjimmunster (Hammond, Ind.) | ||
I still use landline...
My parents don't use the landline, but i do. I keep 4 Western Electric phones, some from Illinois and some from Indiana. I can only receive calls on them. I don't understand why people use cell phones so much for calling. Too bad xfinity doesn't support pulse dialing. Sort of sucks that i have to keep a separate phone to send calls.
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Post# 382565 , Reply# 16 12/12/2017 at 18:56 (2,324 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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Post# 382575 , Reply# 17 12/12/2017 at 23:32 (2,323 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I STILL have 2 landlines | ||
| Post# 382578 , Reply# 18 12/13/2017 at 01:12 (2,323 days old) by Phaeton (Los Angeles ) | ||
Going to look like I'm trying to keep up with the Johns&
Hello All,
Oh, it should be with the Jones'. Well my parents had my number since 1948 and I still have it in the house with 2 phones and lines in all the rooms, but I do use my cell phone all the time. Picture is of a Princess 702B dated 7-63 of my parents that I still have connected and I really should clean. I know some time in the 50's they had to add a digit to the number. Ours was also known as Normandy and I don't know what year we stopped using it and just went to 66. That explains the alphabet on the dial button and touch pad. Now that begs for the question of, do we still use the alphabet on phone for anything today? Sorry to horn in on the Thread. Thank you for looking, Pete
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Post# 382592 , Reply# 19 12/13/2017 at 06:43 (2,323 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 382669 , Reply# 20 12/15/2017 at 13:33 (2,321 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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| Post# 382799 , Reply# 22 12/17/2017 at 16:37 (2,319 days old) by blknblu (CT) | ||
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Do you remember the phrase "hold the wire"? I still remember the family doctor's secretary saying that before she put us on hold. | ||
| Post# 382897 , Reply# 23 12/19/2017 at 16:31 (2,317 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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Hold the wire!
Grabs phone cord and hangs on for dear life...
AT&T was a resulting company after Bell was broken up, all the various parts of the old monopoly were broken off into separate companies. My personal favorite will always be Long Lines, with the microwave link towers and the L-CXR coaxial system, and all the nuclear hardened huts with the repeaters in them. Such a fascinating thing from the Cold War era. But it’s definitely best we de-regulated the phone industry, just like with the airline industry, once deregulation happened the prices dropped and customers came out on top. Regulate competition out of a market and we will get screwed!! | ||
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