Landlines, dying out ?
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We barely use the landline now, I was paying Sky ten quid a month for a calls package, we made three calls in the past month, they rang to try and get me on a better deal but I ended up cancelling the calls package instead which I found satisfying.
The calls we still get are,
My Mum, despite telling her to use our mobiles, she still insists on ringing the house phone, which usually involves hunting down a handset whilst it rings, which sets the dog off doing his Air Raid Siren impression, then you find one, its invariably flat and then she asks why it always takes so long for us to answer the phone. Generally I am sat with my mobile next to me !
Her mum, similar but getting with it these days.
And the other reason it still gets used, scammers "Hello, I am Alex, I calling from BT Open-vreach and your internet is at risk" in a very strong Indian accent, Iike to f
k about with them and just ask if it would be quicker if I just provided my passwords or how much money would you like me to transfer.
5 scam calls whilst working from home the other day, two like the above, and three automated ones telling me to renew my Amazon Prime. Strangely, none today, I did tell them in a very rude manner they may as well take me off their list.
Did have the Call Guardian but turned it off for some reason.
Do you still have one, still use it ?
Going to unplug the bloody things,
The calls we still get are,
My Mum, despite telling her to use our mobiles, she still insists on ringing the house phone, which usually involves hunting down a handset whilst it rings, which sets the dog off doing his Air Raid Siren impression, then you find one, its invariably flat and then she asks why it always takes so long for us to answer the phone. Generally I am sat with my mobile next to me !
Her mum, similar but getting with it these days.
And the other reason it still gets used, scammers "Hello, I am Alex, I calling from BT Open-vreach and your internet is at risk" in a very strong Indian accent, Iike to f
k about with them and just ask if it would be quicker if I just provided my passwords or how much money would you like me to transfer. 5 scam calls whilst working from home the other day, two like the above, and three automated ones telling me to renew my Amazon Prime. Strangely, none today, I did tell them in a very rude manner they may as well take me off their list.
Did have the Call Guardian but turned it off for some reason.
Do you still have one, still use it ?
Going to unplug the bloody things,
My wife's dad calls us on the landline. Otherwise, it never gets used - incoming or outgoing - and is beneath a pile of coats and gloves.
ETA: We moved house a short while ago. In the previous house the landline number redirected to my wife's mobile - to catch her dad's calls, and we didn't even have a landline handset plugged in.
ETA: We moved house a short while ago. In the previous house the landline number redirected to my wife's mobile - to catch her dad's calls, and we didn't even have a landline handset plugged in.
We still have the line for internet, but haven't plugged a handset in for years.... until recently when my wife pointed out our eldest needed to learn how to dial 999, and maybe we should have one for emergencies.
Bloody thing hasn't stopped ringing with spam calls ever since. So, they're on silent. Never get answered. But are there for emergencies.
Except I bought a dect handset, didn't I? What happens when the power goes out? It doesn't work.
I'll need to get a plain old pluggy-inny springy-chord thingy, like it's 1990. It feels so backwards.
Bloody thing hasn't stopped ringing with spam calls ever since. So, they're on silent. Never get answered. But are there for emergencies.
Except I bought a dect handset, didn't I? What happens when the power goes out? It doesn't work.
I'll need to get a plain old pluggy-inny springy-chord thingy, like it's 1990. It feels so backwards.
we've still got ours, the MiL likes to ring on it and the signal is pretty good but the landline is better. We used it a lot in our previous two houses as the signal was poor on a good day, trying to have a conversation was frustating to the say the least when the signal kept dropping out.
Used to keep a handset plugged in "just in case", calls were always wrong numbers or the odd PPI / accident scam. I'd trained my parents to use my mobile anyway, although often these days it's Facetime anyway because the kids want to see.
Switched to Virgin on a new number a year or so ago and just didn't bother to plug a phone in.
Switched to Virgin on a new number a year or so ago and just didn't bother to plug a phone in.
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