Just_Steve
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
My cell phone resides in my car for the most part so I still use a landline.
Triple play deals were often cheapest, so that was the only reason we kept it, but didn't give the number out. Last go-around, Verizon Fios double play was cheaper, so switched to that. Hardest part was weaning people off of using the landline. At the time, we ported the landline to DW's cell and that took care of it. I do have a google voice number so I can use the internet voice when my cell coverage is spotty in the house.
uh?If getting it thru cable vs. a telephone company, then we have a ll.
Seriously, the reason I have kept it and still want to is because my wife is not a native English speaker, and also gets into a panic when things go haywire, and can then suffer a seizure. ... At least then, if DW could keep it together long enough to dial 911 on the house phone, we might be able to survive. Please, no offense to my DW is intended. I love her dearly. But she does have some physical problems that stress exacerbates and causes her to have seizures. It only started a year ago, but she's had six of them. She's mostly able to avoid them now as she's learned the triggers, but some stressful situations simply cannot be avoided.
I thought the correct last poll option was always suppose to be "I like pie", so I voted "You made the poll wrong....blah..blah..blah."
Another thought on not having a landline from the part of my brain shrouded in tinfoil: your cell phone number gets attached to so much these days that it can "unlock" a lot for the wrong person. I don't pretend to be an expert hacker, but when the cell number is on your credit report, SS and your bank use it for a second-level on-line verification, etc. It just seems like too many things get tied together. No one can text to a land line, hacking into your land line phone would be a useless exercise, and it just seems like fewer things can go wrong when you supply a land line number to people and businesses you don't know well.
When a web site requires authentication, I always go for the e-mail to my spamcatcher address instead of a text.