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I don’t want internet data on a phone. I want a phone to talk to people.
I don’t want robocalls and cemetery plot salesmen calling me all day long on my cell phone. I get enough on my land line when I am at home. Oh, and so many times the voice quality of cell phones stinks, voice fading in and out, and calls terminating. Never get that with land lines, at least with copper wire.
I will back KC up on the evil of drivers using cell phones. I was crossing the street in Downtown Atlanta, and a guy on his cell phone nearly hit me. I took a detour to the next block, Incredibly, the same guy appeared as I was crossing another street, still yapping on his cell phone. He nearly hit me again! Cars need to hav built in cell phone jammers installed, functioning when the car is in motion.
I also mentioned pedestrians and other drivers. In fact, to ease the pain of seeing cyclist, I took it out, since we are second class citizens anyways. But more pedestrians, other cars, and gardeners have been killed by a driver absorbed in a cell phone than there ever were from people tuning a car radio.
Yes…technology has advanced to make tuning the radio something you can do from the steering wheel. My phone has technology that when it is connected to my car via bluetooth it will not alert me to text messages and will send an immediate reply to the sender saying that I am driving but will return their text when I get to my destination. It’s on a lot of i]phones, but people won’t use it because they might miss their “whasup with U” text.
Smartphones are great for texting, surfing the web, being a GPS and a source of music, but by and large, they suck at being a phone
Back to post #1 and power out… First thing plugged into my uninterruptable power supply is router and cable modem. Ought to have my analog telephone adaptor on it too, but I don’t use it much. Still won’t help if Commie Cast goes down, but that is not very often here.
Do I miss copper? Hell no! In Texas I had a house next to jimtoo with the same sort of wireless service. Wire line was from Continental which actually did improve it. But they got bought by GTE, which morphed into Verizon, which sold the rural wire line biz off to Frontier which was even worse. When my Wireless ISP shut me down in 2018, I tried to use the wire line for dial up service. It was so bloody noisy that I could barely load text based email. So I bought a house with Commie Cast cable and never looked back.
I set my privacy settings to restrict incoming calls to only people in my contact list.
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