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In reply to the discussion: New telephones are on their way. [View all]Maeve
(42,892 posts)37. Gave up the POTS and bundled with cable
Cell phones for the emergencies without power. Changed mostly for free long distance at the same basic price.
In the old days, we called places, we called 'the So-and-So's house'. Now we call people.
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It would be impossible (with the tech-shield in my roof) to not have a landline.
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2013
#12
remember how before smartphones the trend in cell phones was to make them tinier and tinier? nt
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#14
In the movie Zoolander, Will Ferrell played a crazy fashionista with a tiny, tiny phone.
Arugula Latte
Dec 2013
#24
Yes and I also have a couple of cell phones. I mostly use the cell phone but still want to keep
Raine
Dec 2013
#39
Having spent too much of my life with some form of 'communications device'...........
wandy
Dec 2013
#40
Cell phone only is great until you think your house is on fire and ...
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2013
#46