Does everyone now find the landline being used less & less .?
Ours is hardly used now , almost only there for the broadband.
Ours is hardly used now , almost only there for the broadband.
Landline telephones .
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The only time my landline gets used is when the other half loses his mobile phone and need to ring it to see where it is.
It's purely there to support the BT pension fund, there is no need for it. even if I were a business I would not need it.
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Live where I live and you'll find a landline is a requirement.
VOIP?
the landline at home is only there becuase we have to have one. The office landline gets used a lot.
well that is the upside of a landline, it's got its own power supply. Would never have thought about plugging LEDs into it though
Back in the 70's & the miners strikes with power cuts all the time i rigged up some torch light bulbs in series to the phone line to get a bit of light. Had just learnt about series & parallel in school.
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Very popular in India apparently...
Just don't answer the phone if it rings...
Just make sure you're not holding the wires when it rings. It hurts when you're not expecting it!
I wouldn't be without the landline. That said I've had a mobile since the days of "the brick" and I still don't like them.
only 3 people we want to speak to ring the landline, would rather be without it and save the cost of line rental.
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defo for business, mobiles could be any bunch of cowboys.
How many people still have an office fax machine?
How many people still have an office fax machine?
me but only because its a multi function printer. it is actually plugged into the phone line, no problem sending a fax but to receive one i would have to un-divert the landline
I've got a multi-printer too, never got around to setting up the fax function and can't remember how to these days anyway :^O
The only time the home fax machine was used was for work. I got rid of it, at the same time changed my landline and mobile numbers.
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Well I buck the trend.
Mobile reception here is very poor indoors (though a lot betrter since I bought that chinese mobile phone repeater from ebay :innocent )
I hate phoning people on their mobiles, usually the signal is poor, but I have to pay to call mobiles, but calls to landlines are included in my landline rental.
My work mobile is pay as you go, I rarely make calls on it, I have is so people can phone me.
Mobile reception here is very poor indoors (though a lot betrter since I bought that chinese mobile phone repeater from ebay :innocent )
I hate phoning people on their mobiles, usually the signal is poor, but I have to pay to call mobiles, but calls to landlines are included in my landline rental.
My work mobile is pay as you go, I rarely make calls on it, I have is so people can phone me.
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