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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I had a Samsung fliphone until less than a year ago, when I finally broke down and got a smartphone. My main reason for getting it was to have email away from home. It is also handy for looking up directions or for taking snapshots when I don't want to bring my camera, but I managed fine for many years without those phone functions. I do sometimes miss having a cell phone that could go weeks on a charge!
I hope since I have both landline and cell that in the event of a bad storm or other disaster both the phone line and cell towers won't go down or be overloaded at the same time. I did lose landline service for a while during a big snowstorm several years ago. I'm in an older neighborhood where utility lines are still on poles, not underground, so I expect a tree fell on a line or maybe a car crashed into a pole.
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We lost our phone service during the last rain storm. The cause was a wore out 40 year old phone line. We just had the repair man disconnect those jacks. We had a new jack in the living room.