On Aug 5, 2:13*pm, N8N wrote:
I just got a call from my mom, to tell me yet again to not bother
trying to call on the land line, to call her cell instead if I need to
tell her anything.

this is getting rediculous, Verizon has to have the worst customer
service of any "legitimate" company in the history of this country. *I
mean, I can't imagine anyone else providing such awful service and
staying in business. *Why *don't* more people just cancel their land
lines? *(I know why my parents don't, they live too far out in the
country to get cable. *Otherwise...)

She said she was calling her state representative AGAIN to complain,
and that several neighbors were without service as well...

nate

I've been owned, sold and bought again by AT&T a couple of times in
the last 30 years.
It's always been reliable (except, e.g., when a backhoe ran over the
box in the front yard.) I think we're forced to conclude that it's
Verizon that's ****ty.

When the power in the East went out in 2003, our land line performed
like a champ. Cell phones were useless, not just because they
couldn't be charged,
but also because they were swamped by people using them who only had
cordless
phones at home. They'll pry my 2-pound (I really should weigh it)
Western Electric
desk phone out of my cold, dead hands. (They'll have to shoot me
first, because
it's an effective bludgeon.)

Cindy Hamilton