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PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

In some areas you can no longer get a landline. I was discussing this with someone who lives rural and the phone company will not serve any of the addresses outside of towns.

That’s strange to me as I still have a POTS line and have never been without one through my different abodes. I will say that only a few calls come in on it, but I use it for outbound calls quite often. Almost all of the spam calls come in on the cellphone now.

I remember reading about the last hand-crank phone being removed (As an aside, my memory had this happening 20 years ago. Lol, it was 35!):

www.upi.com/Archives/1990/07/13/…/3557647841600/

“Smith said with hand-cranked telephones, ‘sometimes the connection cracks up and you only hear every third word.’”

Hey, just like my cell service!

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