Does anyone just have a regular home phone anymore?

[vlad321]

SamuelRSmith said:

vlad321 said:

Yes. It's really dumb NOT to have a landline. They don't need electricity, so when a natural disaster strikes they still work, while the other ones end up dead and useless.

What natural disaster is going to take the grid out, but not the telephone network?

As for the O/P, many people still have a landline for Internet connections... BT offer up to 20mb/s on some landline networks (granted, upgrades need to be made to the network... my home town can only receieve 8mb/s through landline), for people who do not live in cable areas (cable is not as widely available in the UK as it is in the US, due to consumers preferring their television services provided through satellite).

Hurricanes in miami, tornadoes in ATL, after an earthquake in LA we had no power but phone was working fine. Simply by being on different grids it increases the chance of it working since there is no dependency. That's why everyoe should have a landline phone, that doesn't require to be plugged in. It is in fact much more common for power to go out than your phone line.