bob haller wrote:
On May 27, 7:30�am, ransley wrote:
On May 26, 9:31�pm, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:





On Tue 26 May 2009 08:40:02a, �told us...
On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:20:36 -0700 (PDT), ransley
wrote:
Several companies sell home phone systems that can I believe use your
cell phone to make and take calls. Anybody know if these work well. It
would be nice to have a desk phone that uses your cell. I saw an ATT
ad.
Why would this be "nice"?
This is reverse technology. �Now you have to charge the cellphone more
often. �A standard home phone requires no electricity or battery
charging. �Technology was originally designed to make life easier, but
reverse technology makes it more difficult. �You seem to be choosing
that method.
You can get a home phone for less than $10. �Plug it in, and never
fuss with it again. �But if you like the battery charging and
replacing routine, and have money to blow on your electric bill, thats
up to you.
Your suggestion is fine if you don't mind being tethered to the phone by a
cord. �Personally, I hate that. �Cordless land line phones still use
electricity to charge the handset. �
What we've done... �We have a land line, but it is only connected to our
security system and our fax machine. �The line is the most basic with
absolutely no "features". �Very inexpensive. �We use cell phones
exclusively for communication. �Mostly we talk to each other, so no minutes
are used, and we never exceed our allotted minutes even while making long
distance calls. �We usually charge our cell phones either in the car or at
work. �No increase in our electric bill.
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I do the same, my landline is now fax and alarm only. I am discussing
a new type of phone system, Landline + Bluetooth in one unit, then
your home phone also does your Cell, even with multiple cordless
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I am going to drop my home line altogether, although I will keep my
copper business line.its very reliable

Verizon FIOS home line has had way too many troubles, including bad
noise on incoming calls, battery failure of fios box, echo, now a ping
sound......

fios tech support is useless, it took months and finally my calling
EVER DAY FOR 3 WEEKS! to get the noisey router replaced, it effected
every fios customer in our prefix.

took weeks to get a new battery and they wanted me to pay for it, the
system was 6 months old. stupid alarm went on endlessely, reps didnt
know box had a alarm silence button

currently the main fios line in our neighborhood is supporting a large
tree on a abandoned right of way left over when these homes were built
in 1950. verizon has a company policy against all tree trimming.....
they wait till the line comes down and charge the property owner.

this will likely cause large outages from storms.

the utility poles are bending and leaning from the trees weight

verizon uses the contract to hide behind rotten service, its truly sad

come october my contract is over, and thats the end of verizon live by
the brand die by the brand
I have had a phone line for 36 year from
Illinois Bell, Ameritech, new at&t
(35 miles southwest of downtown Chicago)
and have been royally
spoiled. I am a 31 year veteran in the
telephony business.
I am now living in Verizon country
(western NC)
and everything about the company is bad.
My temporary land line
in very noisy. On one call the audible
levels are super high, on the next
you can barely hear without turning up
the volume on the phone.
There is 60Hz hum on the line all the
time. You "hear" lightening on the
line when there's a storm. The DSL is
very slow during peak times of the
day. The customer support is the
biggest joke I have ever seen. The only
time I experience such bad support was
from the cable company outside
of Chicago when it was owned by the old
AT&T, but is was all cable
company people. Here in NC I have seen
DSL speeds of 50KHz during
the busy periods. The "tech", reading
from a script in Asia, had me changing
cables on the DSL modem and "making sure
the modem was plugged
directly into the wall and not into an
outlet strip!" When I finally move to
my new house, the line comes from a
remote facility that serves and small
industrial park, so I'm hoping for
better. If I can do anything to avoid
Verizon, I will.