Who still has landline phones?!

Only 2 percent of U.S. adults use only landlines. Another 3 percent mostly rely on landlines and 1 percent don’t have phones at all. The largest group of holdouts, of course, are folks 65 and older. That’s the only demographic for which households with landlines still outnumber wireless-only households. #shorts #landline

[@calliopehu1924]

This probably ties into why random number dialing has gotten worse and worse as a polling strategy: less ability to control geography (i.e. area codes no longer tied to where people live), plus people are used to ignoring spam calls. You can't silence a landline.

[@Whatguy11]

You can't silence them is exactly why my grandparents got rid of theirs over a decade ago. The only people that would call them on the landlines non-stop were spam and telemarketers, not worth the hassle.

[@Username0467]

@@nac.mac.feeglewhich you can silence

[@kreuner11]

You can block certain phone numbers from calling you on a landlines

[@reinisesenbergs8312]

You can silence them. ✂️ just cut them :p

[@brentmartin6833]

They shouldn't be polling anyway... Polls just make politicians stupider/sneaky and don't give an accurate view to the electorate on the candidates' real views/policies.

[@breannasmith5742]

We got ride of ours in the early 2000's. Only got one back in the late 2010's because the internet deal was cheaper with a landline. Had to explain to my 16 year old brother that you just don t know who's calling till you pick up

[@kreuner11]

If it plugs into a router, you're actually calling through the internet not an actual exchange

[@SolluxDivide]

​@@kreuner11yeah pots is dead, it's all VoIP now even if it is a traditional landline attached. Very few areas still have regular pots service without internet or tv bundled in

[@rockyrock4796]

…landlines have caller ID

[@accountforcommenting]

Buy one with caller id

[@Xio189]

I’m trying to figure out how this is newsworthy over literally anything going on in the world. It amazes me how redundant this channel is. Who uses landlines? Fucking businesses? Wooww

[@zhozan13]

Don't forget rural areas where cellphone towers are far in between, especially in mountain regions. Even internet access can be slower in rural areas where fiber optic lines haven't been placed in older developments. Many rural residents will rely on satellite internet, which is slow and prone to outages in crappy weather. Better than it was, though.

[@ashenmoonclash]

I'm glad our dsl internet is still way better than most satellite internet services at half the cost in the middle of nowhere😂

[@brentmartin6833]

Yup, Grand Parent's place in the mountains (not even far out of town) kept the landline due to weather and or depending on what side of the house you were on the cell phone didn't work. (WiFi calling helps, but even that can drop)

[@bland9876]

You could live where my parents live where for some reason even though it's part of the city the cell service is so bad you have to use Wi-Fi calling.

[@DonSMDT]

Yeah my grandpa still has one and he's in the mountains We don't have fiber here personally but like it's fine enough we get 20 megabits

[@awolf876]

Yup my parents live in Wyoming and the internet is spotty at best on a good day. The land line is far more reliable. My parents have cell phones and my mom will sometimes use hers but my dads is an old flip phone and he only has it for emergencies to make a call. He doesn’t understand how to use or send text messages at all. So yes the 1980’s or older ways just work better for him.

[@SalTheCat]

My grandma always used to call on the landline and we never got rid of it. Nowadays, I own a Garfield landline phone for the kicks and call my friends on it

[@tibbygaycat]

That's awesome thats adorable

[@heatherlowry754]

I restored a rotary phone and had to get a landmine service for the joy of using it

[@Normal1855]

I'm 57, and own an M&M's phone. 🤣

[@earlydoc6122]

I keep a landline to call my friends from the “house phone” makes me care about the celly less

[@PanicLedisko]

HELL YEAH!! When I was younger my dad found a Snoopy phone at a thrift shop, WE HAD TO GET IT!! That thing was so sick!!!! It was a SAD DAY when we got rid of it..

[@mspaint93]

I think part of it is old age and not being willing/able to utilize cellphones, but also with age comes hearing impairment and landlines can get REALLY loud. My grandma's around 100 cannot hear their cellphones ring even at full volume, and can't hear the actual calls, whereas the landlines for some reason sound like alarms in their houses

[@Axius27]

Is it possible that the landline is _why_ they have a hearing impairment?

[@chronic_payne5669]

That and dexterity, my parents are 80 and can’t press the small buttons, especially not a touchscreen. They got a new dishwasher and absolutely can not turn the damn thing on because it’s not a physical button 😂 I feel bad laughing but I thought my dad was going to strangle the service tech when he said it’s user error, because the dishwasher is fine

[@shadowwolf8496]

Also mostly likely the case is that they are comfortable with a landline so they just continue to use it

[@mspaint93]

@@Axius27 Lol, they only set it that loud as their hearing disappeared. That's what I don't really get about cellphones, in that they could increase volume in relation to hearing loss with the landlines, but not on a mobile?

[@Axius27]

@@mspaint93 I think it has to do with an increased understanding of hearing loss, the physical size of the speaker, and the fact that a mobile phone has to only cover the distance between your pocket to your ear at most, whereas a landline phone needs to be heard throughout a house.

[@dilapidatedcastillo500]

Dear god that ringtone gave me anxiety. *horrible memories from my former office job intensifies*

[@sanjaynataraj2009]

That's the ringtone my school district always used 😂

[@Roseyfinchartworks]

That’s the hospitals ring tone, I looked behind me to make sure I wasn’t hearing things 😂

[@GSBarlev]

ISPs tend to bundle in land lines for "free" along with internet and TV. Or rather, I should say that it can be hard to find an _a la carte_ offering that is cheaper than their advertised "triple plays." At least, that was the case when I bought my house almost a decade ago.

[@funlover163]

That's why I had a landline when I used from previous ISP the phone was included and it was a nice backup

[@gentlefauna]

As someone who works as an ISP technician there are a lot of people that are surprised they have phone service because they just picked the cheapest option when signing up. They aren't the worst idea to have though. A fair amount of modern phone systems will actually send your address to 911 dispatchers if you call so even if you can't speak for one reason or another they still know where to go.

[@artbrann]

yep, for a long time we had phone(land line), internet, & cable because combined was cheaper than internet & cable without the phone current plan is cell, internet, & cable so

[@GrumpyOldFart2]

Those landlines are VOIPs. The difference between them and “real” landlines (the kind with the little plug into the wall) is that when the power goes out, original landlines still work.

[@GSBarlev]

@@GrumpyOldFart2 I'm sure it depends on the ISP, but I'm pretty sure that the land lines I've seen offered are actual "hardlines" going over the phone wires (as opposed to going through the cable modem). Again, I'm sure it varies from region to region and between providers.

[@acebalistic1358]

We have landline at our house because spectrum decided that, due to how their bundle works, they’d charge us more money per month to get rid of the landline

[@chromicapop4595]

😂😂I think in my old house(a converted farmhouse) we might have had one in early 90s🎯

[@doubleg1749]

1/3 of households yet 1/1 of school classrooms

[@gregdubya1993]

@@kreuner11 until the internet goes down.

[@kreuner11]

@@gregdubya1993 of an event occurs that shuts the internet, i dont think the phone network would survive either. Most modern exchanges connect to the internet or use the same infrastructure anyway

[@gregdubya1993]

@@kreuner11 I meant local and temporary not apocalyptic

[@alteregobruh]

@@kreuner11Buddy not like every internet everywhere stops working, like “Sorry for the interruption teachers but our Wi-Fi is currently down. We’re working on it but we don’t know when it’ll be fixed.”

[@tipoftheiceberg11]

Those aren’t landlines, those are PBX system phones which are connected to the PSTN.

[@1steelcobra]

Most office phones aren't "landlines" either, they're VOIP devices that have a digital subscriber service that provides external routing. And you can literally just shift those into Teams and get rid of the desk phones now, too.

[@thetableoflegend9814]

This explains the phone system at my job so well It was just off enough I could tell it wasn’t a true landline but I didn’t know why.

[@pcbassoon3892]

Yeah, people like the buttons though. I like the buttons to be honest, so I don't have to sort through windows on my screen. You could do away with the handset though. No one uses that.

[@TheJrbdog]

Phones are still more reliable than Teams.

[@mndlessdrwer]

There are several companies that make headset earpieces with paired wireless or bluetooth stands which are designed to emulate the experience of picking up a phone call on a landline for people who insist that they can't wear headphones all day. Some of them are really nice and have touch-screen displays to show incoming call identification and allow you to make calls directly from the stand/dock. Personally, I'd never bother and would just keep a headset on all day instead. I suspect that they're mainly just so executives can pimp their desks and make themselves look superior.

[@fatninjacatmatt]

Or any other soft phone solution

[@jimm6810]

Some areas have terribly unreliable cellular service, especially in hill and mountainous regions.

[@ATClouse]

Even in the flat parts of the country big companies don't see much profit from rural folks so getting service is far down the totem pole it might as well be 6 feet under

[@blabla22222]

In case of emergency it's great to have a landline because when you call for help they know automatically where you are. Also evrybody in the house has access to it and can use it to get help instead of trying to find a cell phone when panicked or the device is dead.

[@libbytaylor84]

Exactly. We have a landline in case of emergencies. We hardly ever use it, but every now and then it comes in clutch. For example if someone is home and their cell is on silent and you need to get ahold of them urgently. Or if the power goes out and the cell phones die, it's a good backup.

[@LRosieB]

Honestly I like having a landline phone at home. It’s a number you can call if you want to talk to someone from my family but don’t particularly care who.

[@kreuner11]

The phones at an office (if they're made by say Cisco As in the video) connect to the corporate Ethernet network, and are not landlines. If you dial out to a regular phone number, it will generally connect via the operators SIP service which works over the internet and gives you a theoretical infinite landlines rather than just a few fixed lines

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

When i moved and got broadband connected BT disconnected the land line and gave us a router that connected our landline phones over the internet.

[@AmazingAutist]

I have a landline... it's good to have a backup. Feels comfortable and familiar.

[@bobfg3130]

If you own a house, having a landline is to be expected. Businesses also can use landlines.

[@chronic_payne5669]

In the 1990’s having a landline was to be expected, definitely not anymore. Businesses using landlines was kinda the whole point of the video, everyone was at work… not home

[@Jerdle]

I love landlines, sometimes you're out of battery and without a charger and in those events having a landline can be a lifesaver

[@zoruaboy]

You might have bigger problems in that case than a landline can fix

[@bland9876]

Every once in a while I wish that I could call my parents house because I don't know who's there at the moment but I don't want someone who's not there to have their phone ring.

[@Ajehy]

My mom is a computer consultant. No way is she giving her cell phone number to her clients, who are all over 80 and call up in a panic whenever “the Google doesn’t work.”

[@briantbmoth6472]

I love when old people refer to the internet as the app.😂

[@throwsanoceanatyou]

Once had an apartment that required a landline hookup because thats how you buzzed people in.

[@elijahlong7791]

We use a landline, and we have home WiFi, signal out where we live is complete crap, so we use it for that reason

[@21KJH]

I have lived at my house for 8 years and the power has been out numerous times, the longest being 8 days during a snowstorm. Landlines never go out. This is especially needed if you have medical issues.

[@GrumpyOldFart2]

Yep. My Aunt lived on Long Island during Hurricane Sandy. She had a true landline (not VOIP) and she was the only person on her block that had phone service.

[@madsx6438]

I grew up in houses without landlines ('96 and military kid), and didn't realize how genuinely useful they could be until I was living with my grandparents and my cellphone was having reception issues. Idk if its because its wired to the wall or what, but the reception in the same house was so much better, and it was nice to have a backup/way for people to communicate without blowing up my phone. I definitely plan on getting a home phone when I own a home 🤸‍♀️

[@aquabreeze7612]

My parents have a landline. The only time I really use it is to find my cell phone

[@BattlewarPenguin]

He avoided answering your question, he is your dad confirmed

[@lara-ce2kg]

That's pretty awesome that you included the author of the column

[@darkychao]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that terrible cell service is one of the main reasons people keep their landlines (or use VoIP). I don't even live in a low population area and the service is so terribly spotty in the residential areas that cellphones are borderline unusable for non-call functions and totally unusable for calls.

[@mapratt]

I don't get cell service at my house, so yup I have a land line!

[@superr_zz]

I'm gonna go insane with that ringtone

[@redactedreplies]

I love the landline in my childhood house, it serves no purpose and we never answer the calls cause its all spam risks but now its nostalgic and it feels weird not to have it at this point so its prob going to stay and by that I mean I will fight to keep it. This makes me sound really old esp since im fighting for it more than my parents and im in my 20's

[@jakeybby8527]

You mean you’re telling your parents to keep paying for spam calls

[@jennifergraceh]

Same here! I don’t live at home anymore (actually I’m across the country) but I still love seeing the landline when I go home. It’s comforting for some reason, and gives me this weird feeling of stability lol

[@MrZer093]

My grandma had a landline for all her life. She just had it (and that number) for so many decades she couldn’t be bothered to get rid of it. She still used her cell phone more though. I guess she just had fond memories and wanted to keep it. It was kind of sweet and I hope whoever has her number now is using it well

[@jacksongrantham4848]

Honestly we still have a landline in our house because it's nice to have it when our cell phones are dead and need charging, or when we don't want to blow through minutes sitting on hold.

[@jennifergraceh]

You don’t get unlimited minutes? I thought all cell phone plans came with unlimited call and text these days. I DO remember the days when that was not the case though!

[@jacksongrantham4848]

@jennifergraceh Yeah around where I'm at unlimited plans are expensive, so it's not that big of an issue, plus it allows us to put all the routine calls and stuff like doctors and services like pest control or an electrician and the like so our phones aren't getting called 24/7

[@artbykuhoo]

We have one! It’s for my grandma shes 92 and prefers it over her cell. Also easy to call internationally

[@Squirrelanditsnutz]

Andrew Van Damme is all of our dads.

[@GeoffrytheButler]

My parents still have one, and I plan on getting one. I really like having somewhere that people who I need to reach me on occasion can, but also not have constant access to me.

[@maciek.u]

Jesus that Cisco jingle caused PTSD

[@electricerger]

I still look forward to having a landline again. It was cheaper than my cell plan for a long time, it was a good way of giving young me access to parentally supervised communication technology, and never had to worry about losing/charging it.

[@Aschkarwralamasrivanasamapanip]

We need more landlines. They have essentially infinite battery in a way

[@dancedivaforchrist]

We keep our landline for emergencies. A few years ago a hurricane came through knocking out cell service in the area (we live in a rural area where cell service is sketchy anyway). We literally never use it, but we have it if we need it.

[@LuxTheFolf]

I do recommend having a landline! You might not think its important but if you lose your phone or your network is down and you have an emergency it could save your life, also as it would also be tied to your address they would find it easier to find you within an emergency! And also just incase you do have family that doesn't have a phone in the house at the time

[@asterix7842]

My 88 year old mom still has her land line. It’s the only phone number besides my own that I have memorized.

[@Greg137-go8gv]

I still have a land line and I love it!

[@WesValure]

It's my Dad.. ☎️ lmao

[@Secondary_Identifier]

I'd be curious to know the psychology of landlines versus cell phones. Do you think people are more likely to call a landline phone number than a cell phone number? Anecdotally I think that might be the case, though I never thought about it before.

[@chronic_payne5669]

It’s dexterity, hearing & visual impairment that comes with aging. Landline phones ring so much louder and in the range that’s easier to hear and seniors struggle to press small buttons on cellphones and touchscreens are even worse

[@RageABoo]

for stationary businesses sure, always assuring if someone i hire is legit and know where to find them in case something is messed up( if i can't find the person to serve papers, i can always go to their business location, regardless i did the best i could to serve, rather the guy running to another state/country and no lawsuit to pursue)

[@rabidsamfan]

It is easier to remember the number you have had forty years and be gloriously unavailable when you aren’t home.

[@eldritchteletubby9319]

My family has a landline, and its actually pretty convenient. We give the number to service people, like mechanics and plumbers. Anyone who happens to be home can pick up or listen to the message.

[@rideronthedrumbeat]

The phone at my old customer service job had that same ringtone. I used to hear it a couple dozen times a day. I'll be billing you for my therapy.

[@Murderbot2000]

The wapo’s social media presence is on point, for a legacy journalism outfit. Keep up the good work.

[@chriswonder2747]

This is like city people learning people still use CD's or DVD's

[@carson2carso]

I grew up and lived in an area that had no cell phone service so land lines were our only option. My parents still have one that I have to call through!

[@slitor]

Nothing wrong with LAND LINES! Still need it for my BBS!

[@AutumnLocks]

As a 30 something currently shopping for a land-line phone, its because I have kids. If the babysitter falls down the stairs and smashes her phone on the way down (or grandma or myself) or some other calamity befalls someone in the household, I want whoever is still standing to be able to call for help immediately. No "Oh God, where's my phone?" or "Oh no the battery is almost dead!" etc.

[@samdouglas9759]

This is one of your best skits yet

[@noodle3218]

Most people seem to be discussing the actual substance the video was about (landlines) but I’m over here admiring the video itself: -the horror movie esque pans with the landline people -the way they used the author of the paper was sheer perfection -the acting was the perfect blend of humor masquerading as seriousness -then the editing to top it off All brilliant! Major props to the editor, idea people, and everyone in the video!

[@harenterberge2632]

A landline comes with the internet connection. It is aso great to have old fashioned desk telephone that has a fixed location and that you don',t have to search when it rings.

[@psilocybicacid7667]

Binging with babish has seen better days

[@Eric-xh9ee]

When you live in a rural area, landlines are nice since cell phones constantly lose service.

[@anniioakley9765]

This is the only way I will consume news thus forward and forever… thank you and goodnight.

[@PooMonkeyMan]

I still keep my parents’ landline going because I know once it’s gone, it’s gone. And I’ll be damned to lose something again that I can’t get back. It still makes for a great purpose of dead ending someone by directing them to your landline and never being home to answer either.

[@autarchprinceps]

I don’t know about America, but here in Europe you always have a landline in your internet package, it’s just voice over IP now. Whether you use it regularly is another matter, but I for my part have it on an app in my smartphone, so it really isn’t all that bad.

[@Don-C.L.]

I'm 32 and still rely on landlines for faxing

[@CMT_Crabbles]

My family has a landline but we rarely use it, we all have cell phones. I think we just had them for decades and my parents didn’t wanna get rid of em.

[@banan_9672]

Remember when cars had phones built into them? I remember my mom had one built into her old Bronco. Unfortunately I was 5 when she sold that thing. I loved that car.

[@MattyIcecubes]

I haven't had a landline since 2004, and even then I still had a cell phone; it just wasn't until 2004 that I became comfortable with going exclusively cellular. Man, we are a quarter century removed from the days when you had to either go home or to a payphone to make a call.

[@MrCykedOut]

When I was handling AT&T accounts (years ago), there were still businesses with landlines. AT&T didn’t have the internet infrastructure to support VOIP, so many people didn’t want to switch. The US government also required AT&T to provide landline services. So AT&T just jacked up the rates for the service. Some lines went from $35/mo to $75/mo. Some security lines also need a landline connection.

[@ElleCullen17]

I'm 25 and I have a landline. I get cheaper internet through the landline company and if I have to call for an ambulance the county I'm in covers the ambulance from landline calls.

[@cornbreadflapjacks]

That ringtone is triggering. 😂

[@Roaether]

Yep. My parents got rid of our home landline back in the early 2010s, and since moving out I've never had one, unless you count the ones we use at work. My grandparents are the only members of my family that I know still use a landline at home

[@markanthony1004]

Growing up with POTs(Plain Old Telephone) by the time I was a young adult VOIP became popular. Soon after Wireless Cell phones overtook the market and even businesses started dropping regular telephones. You can still find them in hospitals and clinics due to their reliability since it’s very easy to find and diagnose issues with them. I know from working at AT&T and Time Warner after I left the Air Force and I’m a Biomed now and I deal with networks among other things

[@michaelwilliams4851]

There's a lot of people that live in rural areas that does not have good cell phone coverage that utilize landlines.

[@Katiebell52]

I am willing to bet your desk phone is VoIP. 😂😂

[@chrislamarque6658]

LOLLL I have that phone and ringtone on my office and I felt chills down my spine when it rang

[@animehair05silently88]

one bonus of landlines is that 911 always knows where you're calling from with a landline, so if anything happens where you can't tell them fast enough they'll be able to send someone cause the phone is always in one place and they can know that

[@Phrennios]

Can you do a short about Jd Vance?

[@noggie7171]

I herded landmines and just thought "sounds pretty American to me". Didn't click they you were talking about home phones till the renter vs homeowner bit. Lol😅

[@howardradford1985]

I still use a landline for reliability and I just realized I'm only 37. You don't get the same reliability with cellphones as you do with landlines. My landline always has signal and the battery is never dead.

[@FielValeryRTS]

My grandma didn't want to get rid of landlines 😂 Even when it's at least 5x more expensive, since mobile phone has unlimited plan.

[@danielleporter1829]

I have a landline, have had one my whole life. One of the reasons I still have one is because the intercom entry system in my building is linked to my home phone and has been since my mom and I moved in in 1996 when I was 14.

[@carolineapodaca525]

Theres also areas of the country where it still financially or geographically is more practical to have a landline instead of a mobile. E.g. rural areas around mountains like parts of Wyoming

[@ShakaarGaleed]

I have one as I also still have DSL (cheaper on a single income budget). I have a cell, but no service. I just use WiFi at home and wherever free WiFi I can get on to (usually work or Walmart), as well as a free app for texting or calling over WiFi.

[@ebonyalexis32]

I really enjoy this channel

[@sudofox]

I recently obtained a landline by filing an FCC complaint to get AT&T to sell it to me. Worth it, I love using it. It's connected to my old Michigan Bell payphone.

[@MsBELLE7]

Its Saturday morning....and that ringtone just gave me ptsd from this coming Monday

[@ShinKyuubi]

I prefer a landline in the event of a power outage. I don't like having to worry about the power going out and not being able to call someone in an emergency, and before anyone says "Just use your cell phone", I turn that shit off the second I get inside to save battery power. I have a phone at home that doesn't die with a low battery, so I see no reason to keep that thing on longer than I need to, I also don't live on the thing and need to check text or social media every second. I was born in the mid 80s so my mom and grandparents always had landlines growing up and I just prefer them, and cell phones didn't have many features. Also where I live hasn't got the high speed internet out my way yet and I need a landline for my DSL....which isn't even an offered service by my ISP for new customers anymore, I was grandfathered in cause my family had it back when it was the best thing you could have...there's a few people like that around were I live.

[@cardinaleek]

That fucking ringtone got me, it's the exact same as my work phone and I hate it

[@sammyolives3129]

I love these shorts

[@matthewmspace]

My parents and grandparents still own a landline, but that’s because they just can’t be bothered to get rid of it. Honestly, it’s good to use as a dummy number on websites that’ll sell your marketing or try to text you, since you can’t text a landline. I’d probably only get a landline if I lived somewhere very rural and had crappy cell service.

[@phoenix5054]

I’m digging / low key crushing on this guy.

[@Bxu021]

😂😂😂😂 the ending is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@johnjones_1501]

My parents just got rid of their landline about a year ago, when they realized they had been paying a monthly phone bill for for it for years, and the only time they ever talked on it, was when telemarketers called.

[@GeekFilter]

It’s a really good idea to have a landline in a place like California where we have earthquakes. If you have a “corded” phone your landline will work during a power outage where cell towers may not or gif may not be able to charge your cel phone.

[@krazyspaas]

My husband was "too far" from a node to get the guaranteed high speed internet so he had to get a landline to run dial up. He bought a cellphone with unlimited data and tethered it to his computer for 3G data. Then he could watch Netflix. That was almost 15 years ago. It's still like that for many rural areas. They often have to pay for pricey (temperamental) satellite internet, a phone line, or get spotty cell coverage from a local provider. Dial up internet still exists in 2023. Some areas are running fiber to rural areas, but it's still a major patchwork.

[@elliethebat4761]

That's how you deal with phone people you don't want to speak with, just ask them if they are your long lost parent (depending on gender and how they introduce themselves); then just keep asking them about it, get emotional and ask them to meet up, tbh any questions/thoughts on this subject will do as long as you're emotional enough and very persistent with it. It feels kinda unethical, but its completely legal. Its gotten me off of a few call lists I was on that i couldn't get off before I learned this tip

[@crystalsheets3547]

Still no cell service in my hometown in Northern California, landline or sat phone only. Most of the kids I went to school with didn’t have electricity and only had indoor plumbing in their kitchens. I’m 44 and wasn’t even born in a hospital. There are plenty of small towns like this sprinkled throughout Northern California and Southern Oregon.

[@mndlessdrwer]

I'm kinda glad I convinced my parents to go wireless only back in the mid-2000's. It was basically just all spam calls, but with a much less effective caller ID system.

[@ElMalito187]

Believe it or not some really rural areas need to have some sort of landline because of weak cell coverage and political red tape that comes along with telephone companies and politicians.

[@eveesix9683]

I worked for a telecom company up until 2017. They had a decent number of people with landlines simply because the cable/internet/landline bundle was less expensive than the one that was just internet and cable.

[@winterrose7094]

This is one of the funniest bits y'all have done in awhile 😂

[@ayeshabogart4693]

I have one; took the cell phone away from my teenager and now better decisions are being made.

[@bryanthegoalie5692]

I have a landline. Reliable. Not only that but I have it set digitally so that when i hang up you hear an audible hanging up before it ends the call... People before 98 will recall slamming the phone on a receiver ...and sending the anger.