Who still rents an old fashioned landline phone?

[pstokely]

I know I just asked this, but a lot of people didn't read the whole subject and just thought I asked "Who still has a landline phone?"

There's actually a company that rents old fashioned landline phones but that only includes the phone itself, not phone service. It was once a part of the old Ma Bell

$4.45 a month for a rotary phone?
http://www.qltcls.com/products/corded.html#traditionalrotary


http://www.qltcls.com/products/corded.html#260
They charge $8.95 a month for that phone but you can buy it for $13.82 from here
http://www.allphonesupplies.com/trimline-caller-id-call-waitin?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Free&utm_campaign=GoogShopping

I guess it's the elderly since they offer also offer prescription drug discounts
http://www.qltcls.com/rewards/

[mahina]

1. I do, because when the power goes out here, cell lines go out too

and it seems like our utility has a hard time keeping the power on when it rains :/

[pstokely]

2. Do you own the phone or do you rent it?

That's what I'm asking

[mahina]

10. own it

and it's a pos

[BoWanZi]

3. The op is asking if you rent/lease the actual landline phone itself, not the service

I haven't seen anyone do that since the mid-late '80s that I knew of. I have heard that there are stories of elderly people who die and their children discover that the person had been renting some ancient phone for the last 40 years after reviewing the phone bills.

[teenagebambam]

6. Yep.

I still have my grandmother's phone that she rented from 1942-1991. Nobody ever asked for it back so I just kept it. Haven't had it hooked up in years but last time I did it worked great!

[CTyankee]

7. That old Bell equipment! I think it was indestructible...

We're seniors but we've had out own landline phones for as long as I can remember. We had a great wall phone in the kitchen which gave out a few years back and we can't find a replacement for it. But our desk top hand set is fine and keeps on plugging, altho the technology has changed such that our message light doesn't blink any more when a message is present. Hubby said he wrangled with the phone company for a couple of hours on that issue and he just gave up.

[JI7]

4. i didn't know people ever rented the phones itself, and even the touch tone phones on there

look old fashioned.

[dipsydoodle]

5. I'm in the UK

and have no recollection of 'phones for fixed land lines being rented for at least 20 years - maybe even 30 years.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. Up until at least the mid-70s,

we HAD to rent our telephone from Southwestern Bell.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Long years ago I knew someone who worked for ATT

or a company that served them, anyway her entire job, for months, was calling people who were still renting phones and trying to get them onto a modern 'own your own phone' set up. She'd find many who were renting phones that were in the attic storage, did not know they were paying for it. Others, however, wanted to keep renting so the company would be responsible for repairs. "No changes please."

[Jazz Ambassador]

9. My mother did, for years

My mom rented a rotary phone from AT&T until just a few years ago, when my sister and I finally learned that she was doing so and hounded her mercilessly. She's a classic "I don't like change" type. She's also living on a fixed income, and once I pointed out that her rental had cost her well over $1000 over the years, she finally, reluctantly, gave it up. I'm still stunned by that.