Wireless Land Line Phone Sets

[Hazcat]

My cell sits on my desk.  Ask CR, I pretty much never carry it (and rarely answer it ) but I like the option.  It is also less expensive as I have a pay per minute no contract and only use maybe 50 minutes on a HEAVY usage month.

[Rastus]

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I can't see getting rid of land line phones for just a cell.
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but methinks it's OK for the government to listen in on radio communications...which is what a cell phone is...as opposed to getting a judge to sign off on to tap a land line.

[tombogan03884]

Rastus, you are correct that anything "broadcast" does not need a search warrant, but while I'm not sure about this, I THINK, that even land line communications get broadcast at some point in their journey.

[billt]

Rastus, you are correct that anything "broadcast" does not need a search warrant, but while I'm not sure about this, I THINK, that even land line communications get broadcast at some point in their journey.

I THINK most all overseas telecommunications via land line in the states, have their signals sent to satellites for the over seas part of their journey. I'm pretty sure undersea cables are all but extinct. They are extremely costly to lay and maintain, and all but impossible to repair if broken. Again....I THINK.

[billt]

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[kmitch200]

during the 2004 hurricane power outage, the cell service went down about the third day of the 9 day power outage... I still had POTS (plain old telephone service) via land line for the entire 9 days.... if you have never looked, your exterior communication box should have a plug in for a phone... maybe even your neighbors

Seeing that outdoor box reminded me of I knew a guy years ago that had a dispute with a neighbor.
That neighbor kept getting billed for calls to China. 

[alfsauve]

Just thought I'd share my home phones.

The one on the right was my family phone back in 1955-1962.   The other one was ours for a very short time after that. 

[Big Frank]

And I thought my phone was old! I have a phone from Radio Shack that has push buttons but it's not a touch-tone. When you push a button it makes that duh-duh-duh pulse sound of a rotary phone. I don't get rid of simply because it always works just like new. It's the first phone I ever bought, in 1986. It doesn't have a regular cradle either. It hangs on the wall by a small bracket and if you set it down on a table it hangs up.

[billt]

Just thought I'd share my home phones.

The one on the right was my family phone back in 1955-1962.   The other one was ours for a very short time after that. 

Alf,

When you called using the one on the right, did you have to pick it up, click it several times and say, "Central, get me the Marshalls office!"   

[kmitch200]

In Mayberry it was Sarah running the switchboard.