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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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! |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 07:41:40 -0700 (PDT), 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. And they'll be treated the same. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:01:04 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: 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. You are on DSL? Yes. It is the most reliable connection around here and I have dial up as a backup. The DSL is 10MB or more, plenty to stream movies or whatever. If you are just reading Email and text newsgroups, dial up still works. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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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. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:39:50 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: 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. |
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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 use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of $.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular. |
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