On 4/16/2021 11:54 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Michael Trew wrote:
>
>> On 4/16/2021 8:21 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> Response to the real Bruce.
>>>
>>> Of course the phone will cost money. duh
>>> My goal is to find one to replace the land line and not add a 2nd
>>> phone.
>>>
>>> If I can ditch the land line, that's $45 a month towards a smart
>>> phone with enough minutes to carry on normally.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You couldn't convince me enough to drop my land line. It's worth
>> every penny of the ~$40 I pay for it monthly. Real land lines work
>> when the power goes out. I've lost cell service in outages and still
>> have a dial tone. Rotary dial western electric phone on my kitchen
>> wall still rings no matter what. The call quality of a cell won't
>> match up either.
>
> And it costs a HUGE amount to add a real landline back in. More like
> 120$ a month here.

Holy cow, where do you live? My phone was $33/mo in 2015. Somehow it's
crept up to $40 in 2021.

I stand corrected. $120/mo would be enough to convince me to drop the
land line... haha. If it goes over $50 in a few years, I quit. That's
just not worth it. I suspect this is AT&T's way of getting out of the
copper business.