In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
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..."?

We get our BB via VM co-axial (20 meg to go up to 40 before long) )and I
must say its been very good and reliable. We also have a backup feed to
that via a radio link. We now use VoIP for the landline phone and its
been excellent. If for any reason the BB should fall down it will
automatically divert to the mobile which is on 24/7. I can now configure
a lot on this system and get charged sod all line rental around a quid a
month ported our number, calls that are charged by the second and
cheaper than most any other carrier, mobile to landline rates much
cheaper and best of all no "connection charge"


I can access my account for billing and see who has called etc if
required, and their VoIPfone customer service is streets quicker than
the major carriers. And best of all they have a very useful divert
line...

http://www.voipfone.co.uk/Voipfone_1...sales_Tool.mp4


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.


I really don't know what the service is like up there Dave or what
network your on but I use a Nokia 6303 and its fine. OK their might be
times when calls break up a bit but its very few and far between and
only these days right out in the country...

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.

Well seeing where you live and how remote that is I expect you'll have
to accept that. Here mains failures around three in 10 years one of them
caused by the builders next door and I've yet to see major faults around
this way of the main mobile carriers..


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


Well they work for us and we use them all the time and I sometimes wish
they hadn't been invented as I have to pay the bl^^dy bills for
them;!...
--
Tony Sayer