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AT&T Eliminating Landline Service?!?! | |
| Hand_of_Man Offer Upgrade  User ID: 819108  United States12/30/2009 01:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 853089 United States12/30/2009 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 646699 United States12/30/2009 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't internet need a landline? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 476386NO not if you have broadband... Whats gonna happen to those that can't afford a cell phone service? Are we going to be forced into having cellphones now? WELL HELLO big brother! Everyone will be tracked with GPS now if they are forced to have a cell phone. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 773494 United States12/30/2009 02:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well...they had better improve their cell coverage if they are going to drop our land lines. Personally, I can't stand paying the $50 per month for the land line, but my husband works out of the home and the only cell company providing coverage in our area (suburban Atlanta) is ATT and then we have to sit outside in order to talk. It's a bunch of bull considering the $200+ we pay for cell in addition to the $50 land line. |
| Winningjob User ID: 385114 United States12/30/2009 02:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Curtis Loew User ID: 562334  Germany12/30/2009 02:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| ZTE User ID: 779511 United States12/30/2009 02:15 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well...they had better improve their cell coverage if they are going to drop our land lines. Personally, I can't stand paying the $50 per month for the land line, but my husband works out of the home and the only cell company providing coverage in our area (suburban Atlanta) is ATT and then we have to sit outside in order to talk. It's a bunch of bull considering the $200+ we pay for cell in addition to the $50 land line. Quoting: FaithYeah, I don't get any cell coverage at my lakehouse, so I had to get a landline there. Of course, if they did away with landlines, and say some other country detonated an EMP or two over the U.S., (or they just decided to shut down cell phone towers for the heck of it), then we'd be set back a hundred years (communications wise). |
| mathetes User ID: 793782 United States12/30/2009 02:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | your alarm signal can go out by dedicated cell. Landlines can be cut. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 853089Not always true...you would need to bring a good size saw to cut ours(Wrapped the outside lines in metal tubes) and all of our utilities are buried For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 701482 United States12/30/2009 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 145362 United States12/30/2009 02:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I use AT & T Dial up at home-I know, ridiculous but anyway they took it off my bill for Jan. Not sure what they are doing but I expect shortly I will be forced to drop AT & T since dial up and long distance is what I use them for. I imagine the dial up will not work soon and I don't need the long distance. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 648 United States12/30/2009 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 851676 United States12/30/2009 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is just a game of chicken, folks. They want government subsidy and a guarantee of monopoly power. That's what a company means when it says it's no longer "economically feasible". Read between the lines. Obama will probably give them anything they cry for... |
| BelgianBoy User ID: 696367  Belgium12/30/2009 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ADSL was conceived for normal telephonelines, so they're not about to be discarded. What is going down the drain is the landline phoneservice: obsolete businessmodel. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 853127 United States12/30/2009 02:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 648 United States12/30/2009 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is a very bad idea Quoting: ^TrInItY^we need landlines in service for national emergencies if anything we need to be upgrading the landline infrastructure not letting it crumble to ruins with out dated backdoored backbone software and hardware... You are exactly correct. Is it expensive to maintain. Basically corporations or important person's will have a access loop to the fiber back bone and or a direct connection to the back bone itself. Small biz and consumers will have to access through a corporate network...... This is one of the first steps to controlling the information super high way and nationalizing our national communications even more so than they already are. AT&T's industry nickname is the Death Star.. I may be wrong on a few points, but 2010 is going to get very interesting!!!!! |
| Hickory User ID: 837690 United States12/30/2009 02:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is a very bad idea Quoting: ^TrInItY^we need landlines in service for national emergencies if anything we need to be upgrading the landline infrastructure not letting it crumble to ruins with out dated backdoored backbone software and hardware... Yes, we need to keep landlines. You have one life. Live it. You have one voice, use it. You have one :Hickory-1: |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 648 United States12/30/2009 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is a very bad idea Quoting: Anonymous Coward 648we need landlines in service for national emergencies if anything we need to be upgrading the landline infrastructure not letting it crumble to ruins with out dated backdoored backbone software and hardware... You are exactly correct. Is it expensive to maintain. Basically corporations or important person's will have a access loop to the fiber back bone and or a direct connection to the back bone itself. Small biz and consumers will have to access through a corporate network...... This is one of the first steps to controlling the information super high way and nationalizing our national communications even more so than they already are. AT&T's industry nickname is the Death Star.. I may be wrong on a few points, but 2010 is going to get very interesting!!!!! One more point. Warren Buffet purchased the railroads right... Guess what is buried along the tracks. . . |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 849249 United States12/30/2009 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 648 United States12/30/2009 02:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are going for the win with one shot. "Indeed, Commission staff has estimated that it will take an investment of approximately $350 billion to make available 100 mbps broadband service to all American consumers.13" Basically a 350 billion bailout. This falls right in line with doing away with free TV. |
| SunDawnn User ID: 835300 United States12/30/2009 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also, the fax machine would become obsolete too, no? I know most people have email accounts but the majority of people I know either doesn't have or have a broken printer. So, how is this scenario going to play into things? People still need hard-copies of leases, contracts etc. Man, I loved the 1970's so much better! PS Most elders also depend on lifeline. How the F**K is that gonna work. They fall and can't get up and then what? Have a robot go retrieve their cell phone for them? Last Edited by SunDawnn on 12/30/2009 02:58 PM Facilitating The Flow |
| jnchisox1 User ID: 773524 United States12/30/2009 02:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is a very bad idea Quoting: ^TrInItY^we need landlines in service for national emergencies if anything we need to be upgrading the landline infrastructure not letting it crumble to ruins with out dated backdoored backbone software and hardware... Excellent point |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 666102 United States12/30/2009 02:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have no more need for a land line except for one problem, you can't have an home alarm service (that I know of) without one. Quoting: Say-It-Loud 853105So, to give up my land line, I would have to give up the alarm service. Wish there were a way around it. There are now wireless alarm systems but not all areas have it. Do a search on-line and look at the coverage maps. |
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