Still have a landline? You can amaze young people

[Demovictory9]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/x7tqrr/land_line/

[agingdem]

1. I still have a landline...

only because I need to "call" my iPhone when I can't find it...the last time: the fridge..don't ask...

[rurallib]

2. !

[dchill]

3. Seems like a necessary expense!

Like my spare key for my spare key.

[h2ebits]

4. Me too. . . .that's what I have done on several occasions. . . .LOL

[Demovictory9]

5. Internet has "call my phone" websites. You enter phone no and phone rings loudly

For those of us with computer but no landline. Found my phone in couch crack etc that way. "Find my phone" apps even override volume

[BlackSkimmer]

23. Good to know!

I have to get a friend to call my phone lol.

[wryter2000]

15. I do that, too.

I haven't even memorized the number. I like to use it to make calls. It won't work to call my brother, though, because he doesn't recognize the number and won't answer.

[agingdem]

18. My landline doubles as voice mail...

on average 40 calls and messages a month..warranty on a car I haven't owned in 20 years...Medicare letting me know the last 90 days of my life will be fully covered (do they know something I don't know???)...insurance companies hawking supplemental policies... mortuaries selling burial plans ("You don't want your children to make hard decisions in their time of grief (Oh, yes I do!!)...and messages for my husband "It's not too late to invest in gold"..my husband died 6 years ago...

[genxlib]

16. One of the things I like about the Apple Watch

You can press a button to make your phone "ring".

Works even when the ringer is off.

I seem to be using it more and more as I age...

[Ocelot II]

26. I tell Alexa to find it.

[hlthe2b]

6. Okay, Question. Is there really such a thing as "true" landlines? Most, I thought were VOIP

So, I mean the old "plug-in the wall" WITHOUT internet relay such that remote areas without DSL or other wifi access can make a call? Like Qwest or some of those old Bell companies? I really haven't kept up and have only used a cell phone for decades now. I know that VOIP often gets advertised as "landline," but I don't think that is really true. ???

[tblue37]

7. I have one.

[hlthe2b]

9. Does it work with a receiver that connectst to cell towers?

[tblue37]

10. I don't know. It plugs into the wall.

[Xoan]

13. Yes. I have one.

I use to have a modem attached to it so I could respond to people on te internet.

[RockRaven]

19. We have a landline. Good old twisted pair of copper wires.

Until COVID, and work-from-home meant we needed better bandwidth and a more reliable connection, we were still using DSL on it too. We upgraded to fiber optic for internet but kept the landline for the phone.

Provider is/was AT&T, which has its origins as a baby Bell. Our neighborhood is a suburb built in post WWII/baby boom era when twisted pair was the only technology (AFAIK) for phone lines. Even as people adopt new tech, a lot of the old infrastructure is still present. To tear it out completely they'd have to get near-universal adoption of the new tech which is rare, or force the issue and lose that fraction of their customers and gain bad PR or trouble with regulators. Instead they've got the new parrallel/on top of the old. Like in our house, I guess.

[Brother Buzz]

21. I have a landline telephone, although it kinda switched over to a VOIP thingy much to my....

consternation. No cell tower, just copper wires leading directly to a telephone station a half block away. I understand the copper wires switch to optic fiber cables there.

Through a pair of old school copper wires, I have a telephone plus high speed internet that has enough horsepower to stream movies directly to a smart television and operate three computers with zero buffering.

When they did away with my genuine landline telephone, I made a stink that my telephone would not operate during a power outage so they installed a 'Brick' a battery that operates the telephone. It also powers the modem so a laptop computer will work too. Bummer, the brick only works for about three hours because two days ago we had a nine hours power outage. (A triple digit nine hour power outage! )

[SamKnause]

8. I have a landline.

I live in a rural area.

There is no cable.

I get my internet through my landline.

If the electric goes out for days, (which has happened) I still have access to a phone.

I don't have a cell phone because the service is spotty.

[hlthe2b]

11. Is it like this company that uses transmitter that connect to cell towers?

https://checkout.communityphone.org/coverage/success

[SamKnause]

12. It does not have a landline base.

I have never heard of a landline base.

I have it plugged into an answering machine.

When the electric goes out I have a different phone that I use.

The telephone cable or wire plugs directly into the phone.

[Different Drummer]

20. The same for me. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. I have a landline and a cell phone.

Sometimes cell towers go out, as in hurricanes or planes crashing into the tall buildings that have the cell towers.

Sometimes the landline goes out.

I find it easier to hear on the landline, rather than the cell phone. I mostly use the cell to text or actual phone calls. Don't have a hundred apps, and do my internet stuff on either my desktop or laptop computer.

[genxlib]

17. We ditched the land line

One unforeseen benefit is that it forces our daughter to choose allegiances when she calls home now.

I am evil so I love to give her a guilt trip about calling her mother's cell phone instead of me. Unless she needs help with math that is.

[moonscape]

22. I have a landline, and bemoan the

dearth of them. The voice quality is so much better and talking to a couple of friends who still have them is a dream!

[DFW]

24. We do. It's an antiquated ISDN line with two numbers attached to it.

People call us on it, we call them on it. Even people under the age of 90!

[nuxvomica]

25. I have a landline and it comes in handy sometimes

Cell coverage in my neighborhood is not great and during power outages I plug in an old princess phone because the telephone line has its own power.

[MichaelSoE]

27. Land line

I can put up with the robocalls and often amuse myself by actually answering the call and wasting their time as much as possible.
I do have a mobile but hate the invasive nature of the phones OS

[csziggy]

28. I have a landline that is included with my copper wire DSL

Since I get no cell signal inside the house - or even on this side of the ridge on my farm, I have to have a landline to stay in touch. Yes, my cell can use WiFi, but if my landline goes out, so does my DSL and I get no WiFi.

Last time Centurylink screwed up our wired connections, I drove to the top of the ridge to report it. Even from there, with the closest cell tower less than a mile away, I got one bar. On the est side of the ridge, the closest cell tower is ten miles away as the crow flies.

It's hard to convince the young people answering the customer service lines that the technicians will be unable to call or email me until AFTER the wired problem is fixed. One of them chirped, "Oh, if we can't call or email, we'll just text you!" That was after I'd spent several minutes explaining why they couldn't call or email.