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We have had our land line phone number for over 40 years, but seldom use the hard-wired instruments. We dropped long distance service on this line a few years ago, using only our Cells for those calls.
We are fed up with paying for a land line, yet realize there are a few distant relatives and long term friends no longer in the area who may only know our house number. This makes dropping the number entirely a problematic decision.
I called our phone carrier seeking additional discounts or plan revisions to drop the cost of our monthly bill. No good option, other than converting our house phone number to celluar. But that would result in a third cell, although it could be permanently placed on a desk rather than carrying it. This conversion would decrease our bill by 80%, asuming we owned thiscthird cell phone rather than leasing one from the cell service provider.
I thought this might be an option for us, provided I could find and buy a desktop cellular phone. Bigger buttons and screen, full time wall wart for power, no need to carry it, etc.
I googled "desk top cell phone" and got zip zero results. Has anyone else faced this same dilemma, opted for a cellular conversion of tbeir long time home telephone number, and found a suitable fixed instrument?
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You could change your cell number to your 'previous' land line number, or use the old number as a forwarding to your cell (if you can continue to own the number).
You are really lucky to have dependable cell service!!! <50% of the USA land mass does not have that option. (Nor are the land lines kept in service). It takes months to get our land line fixed, as no companies have the direct staff to do that. Usually a mouse eating the wires, So I have to go up and down the road checking each terminal tower for a dial tione and report to the provider specifically where the problem is.
Who or what provides Internet service to your house ?
FiberOptic, coax cable, DSL, satellite ??
If Fiber or coax, see if that provider offers Telephone voice service (aka VoIP), either with a modem/router that provides a phone jack, or an add-on VoIP adapter.
If this available, and they can port over the old POTS line number, you can re-use your existing desk phones.
We have had our land line phone number for over 40 years, but seldom use the hard-wired instruments. We dropped long distance service on this line a few years ago, using only our Cells for those calls.
We are fed up with paying for a land line, yet realize there are a few distant relatives and long term friends no longer in the area who may only know our house number. This makes dropping the number entirely a problematic decision.
I called our phone carrier seeking additional discounts or plan revisions to drop the cost of our monthly bill. No good option, other than converting our house phone number to celluar. But that would result in a third cell, although it could be permanently placed on a desk rather than carrying it. This conversion would decrease our bill by 80%, asuming we owned thiscthird cell phone rather than leasing one from the cell service provider.
I thought this might be an option for us, provided I could find and buy a desktop cellular phone. Bigger buttons and screen, full time wall wart for power, no need to carry it, etc.
I googled "desk top cell phone" and got zip zero results. Has anyone else faced this same dilemma, opted for a cellular conversion of tbeir long time home telephone number, and found a suitable fixed instrument?
Just call those that call your land line and give them your new number.
We have had our land line phone number for over 40 years, but seldom use the hard-wired instruments. We dropped long distance service on this line a few years ago, using only our Cells for those calls.
We are fed up with paying for a land line, yet realize there are a few distant relatives and long term friends no longer in the area who may only know our house number. This makes dropping the number entirely a problematic decision.
I called our phone carrier seeking additional discounts or plan revisions to drop the cost of our monthly bill. No good option, other than converting our house phone number to celluar. But that would result in a third cell, although it could be permanently placed on a desk rather than carrying it. This conversion would decrease our bill by 80%, asuming we owned thiscthird cell phone rather than leasing one from the cell service provider.
I thought this might be an option for us, provided I could find and buy a desktop cellular phone. Bigger buttons and screen, full time wall wart for power, no need to carry it, etc.
I googled "desk top cell phone" and got zip zero results. Has anyone else faced this same dilemma, opted for a cellular conversion of tbeir long time home telephone number, and found a suitable fixed instrument?
is there some reason you cannot call distant relatives and give them your new number?
My internet/cable provider basically throws a land line in for little to no money so I keep it. If it was costing me money, I would drop it. The one thing I do like about it is I have a phone in every room whereas I do not always carry my cell phone with me from room to room.
Verizon has a black box that connects your current house phone (not a cell phone) to the cell tower for land line service. No text messages etc. About $22 a month.
My internet/cable provider basically throws a land line in for little to no money so I keep it. If it was costing me money, I would drop it. The one thing I do like about it is I have a phone in every room whereas I do not always carry my cell phone with me from room to room.
Always good to have a landline IMO.
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