From: bigmongo1963@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 10:08:03 PM UTC-5, Louis Epstein wrote:   
   > Kenny McCormack  wrote:    
   > > In article <4cbebcce-151b-44a3...@googlegroups.com>,    
   > > Lenona  wrote:    
   > >>On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 9:16:33AM UTC-5, David Carson wrote:    
   > >>    
   > >>>    
   > >>> I don't think anyone is going to die because their landline that hardly    
   > >>> ever works anyway gets disconnected.    
   > >>    
   > >>Funny, MY experience is that a landline is far more reliable when you want    
   > >>someone to HEAR you properly.    
   > >>    
   > >>If *I* can't hear someone, the other person almost always was using a cell   
   phone.    
   > >    
   > > This.    
   > >    
   > > Cell phones are notoriously unreliable. (*)    
   > > Note: Maybe they work OK in large metro urban areas, but in the semi-rural    
   > > areas in which I live and spend my time, nuh uh.    
   > >    
   > > *Real* landlines - actual Western Electric equipment - are unbearably   
   reliable.    
   > >    
   > > VOIP landlines (like I have) are pretty damn reliable, as long as your    
   > > Internet service is up.   
   > Right now my landlines are fiber but not VOIP.    
   >    
   > It's my understanding that fiber voice can be really really good    
   > but it doesn't have to be and the utilities don't really care    
   > if it is.   
   > > Cell phones - amazing they work at all.    
   > >    
   > > (*) I actually put this (this = the idea that cell phones are solid and    
   > > reliable and always work) in the "things you see on movies or TV that    
   > > aren't true in real life, but many people believe they are" category.   
   > Those who want cell towers and WiFi to proliferate everywhere are    
   > taking away the freedom to be beyond their reach.   
   > -=-=-    
   > The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,    
   > at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   Think of all the copper wire they'll reclaim!!!!  It's at $3.71 a pound today    
   at the close of business...   
      
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