no the ones when the gasman comes round and all their clothes fall off
no the ones when the gasman comes round and all their clothes fall off
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I also read once that somewhere in the USA in one of the northern states on the Great Lakes were having 911 calls answered by Canadian emergency services on the other side of the lake. Can't find it to check if it's true or an urban legend, but as I can attest from personal experience that a roaming enabled phone in Dover will connect to a French network, it has the ring of truth about it.
That is a lot of 'ifs'. You also forget that virtually everyone has a mobile phone these days so your ifs are even more tenuous.
Agree. However, if there were a choice - mobile v's landline, not a single person on the planet would choose their landline.
Probably.
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Land lines go down all the time. Nobody knows because nobody relies on them anymore.
In this area mobile phone coverage by two providers is very poor. A leak in a water water flooded the communications equipment rooms in the base of the tower. For about three months until the leak was fixed and the rooms dried out the micro-wave links to three mobile phone masts were on very limited service.
There will always be a need for land lines.
It is. And it doesn't need them all to happen, only one of them. So the fact that there are a lot is of concern.
No they are not - the fact that mobile phone usage is so widespread doesn't make those potential problems less likely to happen, it means that when they do they affect more people. Like the 10's of millions who would have been unable to use their mobile phones to summon emergency assistance on December 6th 2018.
It wouldn't be a happy choice to make, and I'm not sure that nobody would pick the landline if they had to.
But they don't have to. Nobody has suggested that that is a choice anyone has to make.
The suggestion is that this
is very unwise, and I'm not the only person to say so.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
I haven't had a landline for a good while, and I don't miss it. And I am financially better off, considerably better off.
In fact, when I did have the landline, I invariably used the mobile.
Cancelling the landline, the landline based internet, and the Sky package saves me about £75 per month.
Granted, some of that saving is lost on the mobile based internet connection, which is more convenient for me. But it still leaves me about £50 per month better off.
It's horses for courses, IMO.
In which case, just bang on the neighbours door.......
Lol.
Wanna bet?
I'll give landlines a decade before they are obsolete as calls making devices. Probably less.
Have fibre broadband, landline and two mobile phones , EE( me and mrs) unlimited calls and texts and 4gb data each.Total cost £37 month .
Use a friends Netflix account for free and download any films or Sky tv series free .
Use a friends Netflix account for free and download any films or Sky tv series free .
I always make sure I have my mobile phone with me before going on a roof or up a loft.
I always make sure I have my mobile phone with me before going on a roof or up a loft.
What about when your ski’ing? Landline?
Tried it but the line was a pain.
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