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archive.today • Landline Users Remain Proudly "Old-Fashioned" in the Digital Age - The New York Times

Traditional phones may seem like relics in the iPhone era, but a recent AT&T cellular service outage had some landline lovers extolling their virtues.

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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I maintain POTS because the fcc requires battery backup in case of power outages. One phone in my kitchen, ringer always off. I live in a place where the power goes out when a mouse farts. When hurricane Harvey hit i had phone service over copper when everything else cellular/IP related was out for over a week.

Call me a boomer, but im not getting rid of my POTS service as long as it is copper l. If/when it switches to IP, ill quit paying for it.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Hey dumbass!

POTS service.
ATM machine.
PIN number.

Im a real smart guy.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Its not possible to get analog phone in a lot of places these days

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