On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:18:26 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

Is it actually worth installing telephone, or does everyone just use
mobiles or VOIP now?

landline phone please

+1

Done away with that, much cheaper and better...

Mobiles "much cheaper and better..."?

Not IMHO, there is an awful delay, the codecs produce terrible quality audio,
that's assuming the signal is strong and stable enough for enough data to
arrive for the audio to be reconstructed in the first place.

Power failure at local cell and the service stops and may not return when the
power comes back. One cell around here was off for weeks recently after power
problems. That's not the first time that power glitches have knocked out
cells for a while (days) after the power has been restored. Varies randomly
by network so you can't say that network X will come back with the power as
next time as it might not.

Mobiles should be treated with a lucky if it works and pure convenience
attitude and should not be relied upon.

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Cheers
Dave.