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Invisiblethe mad machinest
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house phones?
    #18806463 - 09/06/13 08:01 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

so I'm sittin here at a friends house and I hear this rediculously loud ringing from the kitchen and I realize that they still have a house phone. freaked me out cause I haven't herd that sound in like at least 6 years!!

soooo how many of youse guise still have house phones and do you actually use it??
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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18806468 - 09/06/13 08:02 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Do you mean a land line?


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Re: house phones? [Re: koods]
    #18806469 - 09/06/13 08:03 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

yeah land lines. I've always called them house phones:shrug:


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18806477 - 09/06/13 08:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

No lan line here but my parents still have one, as do most older folks.


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18806478 - 09/06/13 08:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I just got rid of mine last month. I got a voip in a package deal with my cable and have a cell phone.


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Re: house phones? [Re: AWS]
    #18806490 - 09/06/13 08:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

is voip when your phone has a "modem" hooked up to your modem and your calls use bandwidth?


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Re: house phones? [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18806510 - 09/06/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Yes


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Re: house phones? [Re: AWS]
    #18806517 - 09/06/13 08:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

It's quite common in europe to still use this, because it's allot cheaper.
Cellphone costs in europe are way to high...


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Re: house phones? [Re: AWS]
    #18806518 - 09/06/13 08:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Vonage & Magic Jack  are examples of VoIP.


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Re: house phones? [Re: kyoto]
    #18806522 - 09/06/13 08:27 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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kyoto said:
It's quite common in europe to still use this, because it's allot cheaper.
Cellphone costs in europe are way to high...



Bullshit.  It's way higher in Canada and nobody has land lines over here.


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Re: house phones? [Re: koods]
    #18806525 - 09/06/13 08:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I don't have one but I want one. What better way to check to see if a person is home :thumbup:

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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18806535 - 09/06/13 08:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I gave up my land line because I never used it. I'd get an incoming call maybe 4 - 5 times a month.

  I remember when I was growing up, we had a Party line. You pick up the phone and some times, people were talking on it. This was in the early 60's...:seniors: . . . :peace:


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Re: house phones? [Re: vinsue]
    #18806542 - 09/06/13 08:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

i remember party line in highschool, and that was in 2000's

i didnt realize how old that was though


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Re: house phones? [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18806555 - 09/06/13 08:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I don't want one because there's too many solicitors who call


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Re: house phones? [Re: VivaLaMushie]
    #18806568 - 09/06/13 08:44 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

There is a 'Do not call list' you can do...:icanthearyou: . . . :peace:


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Re: house phones? [Re: VivaLaMushie]
    #18806582 - 09/06/13 08:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

My parents don't even have a house phone any more.

It's ridiculous to me that some institutions insist that certain documents must be faxed, why the fuck are you hanging on to such outdated technology? Scanning and emailing does the same thing, but does not rely on obsolete technology few people have any more. It's like insisting on a telegram or something.


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Re: house phones? [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #18806584 - 09/06/13 08:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

pwnasaurus said:
It's quite common in europe to still use this, because it's allot cheaper.
Cellphone costs in europe are way to high...



Perhaps we are a bit less progressive on the subject.
Many people still have on here, this makes me able to actually call people with it. If 50% of the people would throw out the house phone one day, the rest would follow the next day.


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Re: house phones? [Re: vinsue]
    #18806585 - 09/06/13 08:49 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

vinsue said:
There is a 'Do not call list' you can do...:icanthearyou: . . . :peace:




There are a lot of robo-dialer scammers that don't care about the DNC list.


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Re: house phones? [Re: AWS]
    #18806591 - 09/06/13 08:51 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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vinsue said:
There is a 'Do not call list' you can do...:icanthearyou: . . . :peace:




There are a lot of robo-dialer scammers that don't care about the DNC list.




Ya.

My grandparents get about 20 robots calling a week.


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Re: house phones? [Re: kyoto]
    #18806593 - 09/06/13 08:52 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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kyoto said:
If 50% of the people would throw out the house phone one day, the rest would follow the next day.



No. That would only be true if you could only call a fixed line with another fixed line; i.e. no calls between fixed lines and cellphones. As it is, there is barely a negative incentive to having a fixed line in addition to one or more cellphones. I think I pay something like $5/month for my (VOIP) fixed line, which I use once in a blue moon to call my parents toll free (or rather, the other way around).


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Re: house phones? [Re: psi]
    #18806636 - 09/06/13 09:10 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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psi said:
My parents don't even have a house phone any more.

It's ridiculous to me that some institutions insist that certain documents must be faxed, why the fuck are you hanging on to such outdated technology? Scanning and emailing does the same thing, but does not rely on obsolete technology few people have any more. It's like insisting on a telegram or something.




I saw somebody using Western Union the other day to send money to someone and though "how antiquated is that." Just buy a fucking gift Visa card for half the price and you can reload it every time your retarded child needs something.


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Re: house phones? [Re: koods]
    #18806678 - 09/06/13 09:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

You need cash to pay rent some times. A visa card wouldn't work.


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Re: house phones? [Re: AWS]
    #18806712 - 09/06/13 09:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I have a land line in my house but there is currently no phones hooked up to it, only a fax machine.


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Re: house phones? [Re: psi]
    #18806734 - 09/06/13 09:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I love technology.  Been without a landline almost 12 years.

Rarely use cash.  I prefer the simplicity of electronic formats.


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Re: house phones? [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #18806751 - 09/06/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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pwnasaurus said:
Quote:

kyoto said:
It's quite common in europe to still use this, because it's allot cheaper.
Cellphone costs in europe are way to high...



Bullshit.  It's way higher in Canada and nobody has land lines over here.




You can get some pretty affordable cellphone service these days in metropolitan ares, before I switched to a plan with internet I was paying $20 a month and that included Ontario long distance. If I didn't have the answering service it would have been $15.


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18807487 - 09/06/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I don't even have a phone...


(unless some cans tied together count)


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18807564 - 09/06/13 01:57 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I haven't had a landline in like 10+ years. I don't know anyone who has one, except my grandparents.


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18807578 - 09/06/13 02:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

HAven't had one since I went to college and left my dad's house. He still has it and uses it when he's home. It's actually kind of annoying because I'm never sure if I should call his cell phone or his home phone. Not that I really call him often.


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Re: house phones? [Re: the mad machinest]
    #18807604 - 09/06/13 02:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Haven't had one in like 4 years. Only reason I had one was because it was actually cheaper if I got the "triple play" plan that included cable, interwebs, and phone. All I needed was interwebs and cable. The only thing I used it for was sending faxes.


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