Landline - do you have one

[speedog]

Just curious after perusing the mayoral thread, how many people still actually have landlines in their homes. All of our kids have moved out and none of them have landlines but quite a few people we know still do although most of them would fall into the 45+ age group. We actually still have two landlines in our home - one is a line my wife uses for business so she can keep her personal cell phone as just that, personal. The other line we've had for 30 years now and still regularly use it.

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Is something like vonage considered a land line?

[speedog]

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Is something like vonage considered a land line?

If it's VOIP or IP based, no. Physical hardwired telephone line that doesn't use a data line into your home - DSL, fiber, cable, etc.. In Calgary, TELUS was the only game in town unless you used a reseller of their landline services.

edite: I need to quantify things with respect to DSL lines - you could have either a regular landline with DSL or an IP based telephone lime or both. We had a regular landline when we had DSL which used a splitter to separate the DSL data signal for our internet. Now that we're on fiber the splitter is gone and the physical pair into the house only carries that telephone line.

[jwslam]

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Is something like vonage considered a land line?

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If it's VOIP or IP based, no. Physical hardwired telephone line that doesn't use a data line into your home - DSL, fiber, cable, etc..

That's a weird definition... I'd consider landline to be something that you can't bring from place to place i.e. it's stuck on the piece of land you call home.

[killramos]

I do but it’s on the chopping block. Only ever get telemarketers and calls from the in laws on it anyways.

[speedog]

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That's a weird definition... I'd consider landline to be something that you can't bring from place to place i.e. it's stuck on the piece of land you call home.

Landlines are considered a telephone that has it's pair of wires hard wired all the way back into the telephone provider's central office location - my two lines are physically wired all the way back into the main rack at TELUS' Capitol Hill exchange. An IP based telephone may not have a physical demarcation point in a central office where a technician could use a special test handset and clip on to your telephone line for testing purposes and most likely an IP based phone line does not have a physical hard wired presence outside of your home where one could connect and do a test. Remember, I am an old telephone guy.

A TELUS landline will also still work during a commercial power outage without any need for an UPS at your home.

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I do but it’s on the chopping block. Only ever get telemarketers and calls from the in laws on it anyways.

So you voted 'one'?

[ExtraSlow]

Have an IP phone. Went with ooma because it's supposed to integrate better with traditional 911 services. Only have it because we regularly have older relatives babysit and they need a way to contact us or an ambulance.

[jwslam]

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Remember, I am an old telephone guy.

Sorry I forgot phones work like this in your brain:

[bjstare]

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I do but it’s on the chopping block. Only ever get telemarketers and calls from the in laws on it anyways.

Sounds like an irrefutable case for getting rid of it

[Seth1968]

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Sorry I forgot phones work like this in your brain:

It's just another meaningless thread/post from speedog that is based in a desire to be young again. That's why so many of his posts refer to "age" and "old".

[JRSC00LUDE]

Not for at least 13 or 14 years.

[speedog]

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Sorry I forgot phones work like this in your brain:

Heh, when I started at TELUS they still had some of these around - I remember doing free long distance calls on the 17B board after hours for other employees.

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It's just another meaningless thread/post from speedog that is based in a desire to be young again. That's why so many of his posts refer to "age" and "old".

Young, been there, done that. Things get better with age but you wouldn't know that.

[The_Penguin]

Scrapped my Telus landline about 2 years ago, we use our cellphones most of the time anyway. Switched to MagicJack, don't use it much, but it's dirt cheap.
Also no more crap calls from sales / charities, as we got a 403 number with a prefix that's not very well-known so far.

[BokCh0y]

We have one through Shaw with the absolutely lowest plan with nothing but the basics. I's primarily used to receive calls from my wifes family, tha's about it.

[A790]

I first moved out in 2005 and the landline didn't follow me.

[taemo]

when we first moved to our new house, Shaw gave us the new home plan (cable, internet, phone) for a year.
as soon the 1 year promo was over, we cancelled cable and phone and kept only the internet.

my parents on the other hand still have landline, i prefer calling them there first as sometimes they don't have their phone with them.

[speedog]

Isn't Shaw's phone line IP based? Will it work if your commercial AC power goes down?

[killramos]

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Sounds like an irrefutable case for getting rid of it

It is literally in my top 10 stupidest wastes of money in my life... Honestly I mostly kept it to keep my old cell number when I got a new one from work. And for alarm system, if I get rid of the phone, can cancel adt too.

Win Win all around. just need to hold my nose and speak to the shaw people...

My shaw box has a small UPS inside it to keep the phone working when power goes out. For what its worth. Doesn't matter since my handset base needs power anyways.

[rage2]

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Isn't Shaw's phone line IP based? Will it work if your commercial AC power goes down?

It won’t, but it will Still work behind a UPS. I wanna say the new setups does have UPS so it’ll work till the battery dies.

[speedog]

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It won’t, but it will Still work behind a UPS. I wanna say the new setups does have UPS so it’ll work till the battery dies.

So it's not a landline in the same sense as a TELUS landline and can I assume that Sjaw's home phone is multiplexed or whatever with Shaw's other services that come into your home over a coax connection?