[Cialug] OT: Any good reason not to kill land phone line?

[afan pasalic]

Bill Davis wrote:
> Also some satellite system require a phone line for pay-per-view movies
> (to report you purchased them), some other monitoring devices like water
> meters. 
don't use neither cable TV or satellite.
yes, my water meter is hooked to phone line. I just call water dept. and
they say it's not a problem they have solution for it.


> You may also need to dial in to a computer at work (I did until they set
> up VPN a couple years ago).   
use VPN too.


> My old Apple AirPort basestation that had a modem supported me dialing
> INTO my home network via PPP (as well as connecting to a dialup ISP of
> course.)  They dropped the modem in more recent versions.  
>  
> It's also good to have a backup.  I've got Qwest set to use their long
> distance at 99cents per month plus whatever time I use (as opposed to
> AT&T long distance which was $10 a month or something...I forget how
> much) so for about $25 month I've got a backup phone line and visitors
> or guests have a phone they can use without borrowing my cell phone.
I have family plan wit T-mobile (1000 minutes/month) and actually, all
my long distance calls I used cell - minutes are already free.
But, I have a lot international calls and it was main reason - until I
signed up with long distance company and now I have int. calls through
my cell with same rates as using land phone.


as far as I can see - there is "no" reason not to do it?

thanks guys. it helped me a lot.

-afan

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