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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:25 PM Original message |
Who still leases a landline phone? |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. brings me back to my old Bell system days |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. believe it or not, my neighbors still did a year ago. |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's a touch tone, and it works during long power outages |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. I have a cell and a land line |
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patricia92243 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. Me. I hate cell phones. But then, I am old. :) |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. Me too. But it is not leased. I pay for the phone service. n/t |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Paul Revere lady might, so in she can see Russia through her phone. |
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Thirtieschild (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. We had one of those during WWII |
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chowder66 (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. I do. Apartment security box does not work w/ cell phones also |
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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 09:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
38. you lease the actual phone? Or just have a land line service? |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. Love my landline, will never give it up...n/t |
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octothorpe (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I don't think the OP meant the landline service, but the actual phone. |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. I have my own phone...n/t |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. The phone leasing company was one part of Ma Bell |
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octothorpe (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Really? The one mentioned in the link? |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:22 AM Response to Reply #22 |
35. they'll probably go out of business when their customers are all dead |
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octothorpe (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. Seems similar to leasing a toaster... |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. I have 3 landline phones which I own, not lease |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. That phone reminds me of my grandma's phone..AND she had a party line |
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InkAddict (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. Perhaps my folks still do though they've only used it only once in the |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
13. You talking the phone or the service? |
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XanaDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Me, I'm keeping it |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. i have a landline and 6 phones. |
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mysuzuki2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. If I remember correctly, it wasn't until the 1980s |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I was required to purchase our phones. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. You could only have one phone with a ringer on it. |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. My father had a hardwired phone that he leased from Ohio Bell until he died in 92. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. I still have a landline which comes with the DSL |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. Looks like yet another way to take advantage of the elderly. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
27. They still make phones with wires? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 09:03 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. And when the power goes out and cell towers are down, guess what. |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. I got rid of my landlines |
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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. What would be the point |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
30. We have a landline, but it's not rotary. |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
32. Here in Buenos Aires it's still common for apartments to come with a phone |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
33. I doubt anybody under the age of seventy |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 05:54 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. I got a phone I picked up at Radio shack in 1975 for $10. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Yep. I have a circa 1970 Trimline hanging on the wall in my garage. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
37. Weird. Originally that's all you COULD do, but they gave my grandmother hers when Ma Bell split. |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
39. I do |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
40. I do! I do! And I will until ATand T does away with all of them to get money |
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