What having a landline says about you

Does having an IP phone system on wired fiber optic count as a "land line"?

Is my 86 year old mom a Boomer? Even my 93 year old aunt has texted me to advise her landline is disconnected and she no longer has the phone number from 65 years ago.

Mom is just both incapable of accepting change mentally and scared shitless of her own shadow so she will die clinging to her landline as an infant’s security blanket.

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If you still have a landline you are likely:

-be a boomer

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Probably more like the Silent Generation 1925-45. My 89 yo mom would have one, but no longer offered in the very rural area of the Sip she lives in.

This was filmed when I informed Mrs. Silvera that we were cutting the landline, circa 2010.

20 years ago when I first suggested that we get rid of the land line since we all had cell phones, my 16 year old daughter said no, " we are still human beings." None of us, including her, have land lines today.

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Does having an IP phone system on wired fiber optic count as a "land line"?

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I was surprised, they actually made the distinction in that article:

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Earlier this year, California regulators rejected a bid by AT&T to pull back from copper-wire landline service in the state. The carrier reasoned that plain old telephone service is, well, old, and demand is low. Only about 5% of the households AT&T serves use copper-based landlines, a company spokesperson said. Most landlines now make calls through an internet connection. "We need to make a fundamental choice about whether our nation's communication networks should run on outdated copper or ultra-fast, reliable, modern networks," Spalter said.

Even so, the pushback from California consumers proved that many Americans are still passionate about their old-fashioned landlines. “I am not ready to give up my landline,” wrote John Beckmann of Sherman Oaks, California, in a comment to regulators on the AT&T case. “It enables me to have multiple telephone extensions located conveniently throughout my house. As a senior citizen, I do not have the capability to hunt for my cellular phone, short of having to carry it with me whenever I move around in my house, which is more than inconvenient.”

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We still have a VOIP line with our 30+ year old copper-wire number ported to it. I have 6 extensions around the house, garage, basement. It's nice to just pick up a phone anywhere I am. And if the battery is running low, I just switch to another one, no being tied to a charger and a cord. And if needed, I can just pick up an extension and 'drop in' on the call, w/o having to dial and do a 3-way conference.

BTW, you can gain all this convenience with a cell phone as well. They make 'land line' style phones, a base with multiple extensions, that will automatically connect to your cell phone over Bluetooth when it is in range. Then you can answer from either the cell or any extension. They support multiple cells as well, just select from the handset.

I got one of those for my Mom when she was in assisted living. She had trouble with the small buttons on a flip phone, or a touch screen. So I got her one that was almost identical to her old home cordless landline phone. Worked flawlessly with her old flip phone connected through Bluetooth.

My mom stilll has one but if you sneeze the wrong way you lose cell service. Plus my mom routinely forgets to charge her cell phone.

On a bright note I finally got her to get Starlink even though she doesn’t understand the Roku versus dish remote

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My mom stilll has one but if you sneeze the wrong way you lose cell service.

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When my father-in-law was alive and living in Mansura, La. he had a land line and a cell phone. That cell phone was mostly to have when he was not around his house since getting service at that location was iffy at best with often having to walk up and down the gravel road in front of his house to get a connection.

Don't know how it is now since he died 13 years ago this past September, so it may be better now.

They don’t need any kind of phone until they start driving.

No landline since 2001 here.