On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:39:50 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I
get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop
paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!


Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call
your landline, get your cellphone number.


I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I
have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are
pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only
other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to
the grid. Just about anything takes them down.


I have Comcast, but our cables and lines are all underground. Home phone
$10 a month VOIP.

When Sprint bought out United Telephone in the 80s, they ripped out
virtually all of the old "plant" and built a system for the 21st
century.
Comcast was not that committed when they bought MediaOne and we still
have the junk they got from South Florida Cable.
They do offer blazing speed but reliability sucks and their service
department is rated the worst of anything that gets rated around here.
My neighbor used to work for them and he quit in disgust along with
most of the real "cable guys". They have MAP monkeys and script
readers now.