From: davidc@wa-wd.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:05:48 -0800 (PST), Tommie Hicks   
    wrote:   
      
   >I do not have cell phone signal where I live.  My landline is horrible.  On   
   rainy days I cannot make a call from my house.  Our phone plant was installed   
   in 1962.  My landline provider, Frontier, refuses to fix it.  They tell me to   
   terminate the account    
   if i don't like it.  In 1985 I could make calls from my rural abode 24/7.    
   Today I cannot.   
   >   
   >If you have a landline that works, don't take it for granted.  I plan to get   
   a Tesla phone, but it will take me a few months to save up for it.   
      
   I kept my landline way longer than most people did. The main thing I used   
   it for was to locate my cell phone. It was also the number I gave out to   
   all the stores that identify customers by their phone number. But it kept   
   going out of service every couple of months. If it had worked, I would   
   have kept it to this day. I'm sure it didn't bother the phone company when   
   I cancelled it.   
      
   I don't think anyone is going to die because their landline that hardly   
   ever works anyway gets disconnected.   
      
   David Carson   
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