General Chat

So in the case of an electrical blackout we will lose all connection to the outside world. :-0

Mobiles need charging & do not always get a signal here in the countryside
No fibre
Computers/TV/Radio need electricity to work

I really do think that the powers that be should stop & THINK.

The days of POTS ( plain old telephone service ) are numbered and it will be phased out at some point. For AT&T tomorrow would not be too soon...

In practice the phase out will start with no new POTS connections i.e. ADSL/digital or fibre only and then POTS service will be gradually withdrawn. The current fixed number system is likely to outlive the POTS system it was designed for.

We have telephones all over the house (for convenience), only one of them will work during an electricity outage.

OH has a mobile 'phone for work, but it won't work where we live, even though we can see the tower on top of the hill! We often see neighbours walking in the street with a 'phone jammed to their ears. We keep saying we live in a black hole.

When we go out (socially) the mobile 'phone stays at home.

If mobile 'phones had been available when I was young & single (a looooong time ago) I wouldn't have bothered with a land line.

:-)

we have a land line phone in the basement where OH has his computer, etc.

On the main floor, we have a portable ................ the base is connected to a socket and jack in the bedroom, and I carry the handset around with me from room to room.

We had additional jacks put in in the basement and in the kitchen years ago, with the original one being in the master bedroom ............... don't ask why!! That was just the way it was when we moved in here in 1972!!

The kitchen jack is used for the answer machine, and the basement one for the old land line phone.


Incidentally, having the two phones means that OH and I can both talk to someone (eg, our daughter) at the same time.


Our telephone company actually recommends that everyone should continue to have a land line phone, in the event of power outages, etc ................. or even for when the "big one" comes. That is the "big" earthquake (an 8 or larger) which is expected "any time" in the next 100 years or so.


We are dinosaurs enough not to have a cell phone, nor do we want one!

We love the ability to go out and about and be "unavailable" :-)

My mobile is really only to talk to people who don't have landlines.....or to make calls before 7 pm

If I want a long chat, I use the landline. Much more comfy :-D
I have a handset downstairs and upstairs.
I also have a cheap 'old' phone in the cupboard - mainly because of the trouble I was having with T*lk T*lk.
My mobile is usually in the bottom of one bag or another, it's usually used to text when making arrangements for meeting someone etc, or checking they're in, then these are followed by a landline call :-D

I was wondering last night, how I would get out of my electric recliner if the power goes off....I know batteries can be put in just incase, so maybe I need to get some.

My landline is digital but I have a mobile as well and torch in the pocket of my chair should I be able to get out to do anything :-D

Hi peeps, following on from a chat on another thread, i want to say that with regards to landlines, at least when the power goes off, yu can still make tel calls.

I live in an area when during the gales in winter mostly, our power goes off and if you have a digital tel, it's useless.

Noone can tel you and you cant tel out. My mil was given one of these "modern" phones and i have said many times, get your old phone out back on because if you need us when the power is off(she is a widow) you cant tel us for help.

i know some will say you can have both and switch over but in a blackout, thats not easy for an elderly person to do.

Also, having a portable tel beside you on the armchair means they can sit all evening and not have to get up which is not good for the elderly's circulation.

This quite often means that when they go to bed, the battery is flat and so is put on charge meaning they have no tel beside their bed. Worse still they completely forget to charge it and also forget where they leave the tel sometimes, bedroon, bathroom who knows.

I just wonder what the general opinion was amongst members on here. Are you for or against modern technology.?Do you use a landline or something else?

Florence
In the hebrides