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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:11:01AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
As for having a landline, I need it for ADSL. I also think it's a bit rude to expect friends and family to call an expensive mobile number rather than a landline. I think it's a bit rude of people to expect me to pay to receieve calls from them. Cos that's what having a landline would mean. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Repent through spending |
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:20:52AM +0000, d wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:57:35 +0200 Jarle H Knudsen wrote: According to this [1] article in Norwegian, the landline voice network in Norway will be decommissioned before 2017. Telenor says spare parts are in practice not produced any more and the suppliers will end support in 2017. New telephones that looks like and is operated like a traditional telephone, but with a mobile antenna, will be on sale, and also boxes you can plug your old phone into. These will have much better antennas than regular mobiles. Sounds a very stupid decision made by people who only care about the bottom line. Land lines allow emergency services to pinpoint someone precisely, mobiles don't. More and more phones these days have GPS, and in some countries there are regulations saying that that data has to be available to the emergency services. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Godliness is next to Englishness |
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on Wed, 13 Jun 2012, David Cantrell remarked: As for having a landline, I need it for ADSL. I also think it's a bit rude to expect friends and family to call an expensive mobile number rather than a landline. I think it's a bit rude of people to expect me to pay to receieve calls from them. Cos that's what having a landline would mean. So which rudeness is worse? At least the landline cost is fixed each month, and not per minute of call made. -- Roland Perry |
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Roland Perry wrote:
So which rudeness is worse? At least the landline cost is fixed each month, and not per minute of call made. Is it also rude that I am out an awful lot and thus unlikely to answer my landline except at a pre arranged time? Neil -- Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply. |
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..net, at 18:37:23 on Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Neil Williams remarked: So which rudeness is worse? At least the landline cost is fixed each month, and not per minute of call made. Is it also rude that I am out an awful lot and thus unlikely to answer my landline except at a pre arranged time? No, that's just life; and your mileage varying. Someone is "in" at our household most of the time. -- Roland Perry |
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On 12/06/2012 12:29, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:20:52 +0000 (UTC), d wrote: Sounds a very stupid decision made by people who only care about the bottom line. Land lines allow emergency services to pinpoint someone precisely, mobiles don't. The "we can't get the parts argument" usually means "we don't want to pay to upgrade the parts". Telenor is currently loosing about 6,000 landline customers every month. Norway has a population of just over 5,000,000. There is also little point in trying to install any sort of fixed line networks in parts of East Africa or the Republic of South Africa. |
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On 12/06/2012 11:57, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:11:01 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 08:39:16 on Tue, 12 Jun 2012, d remarked: It was also a very high-functioning cordless phone for use a home. Despite several attempts, I don't think there's yet a comparable solution that's caught on (a single phone to use cordless at home and wireless at large). That sounds like a solution that no longer has a problem. A lot of people don't even have landlines at home now , they just rely on their mobiles. Which is probably fine until there's an emergency and you can't find it. Mobiles are much more common now, the Rabbit was withdrawn at the same time as Hutchison PCN was launched - you probably know it as "Orange". And it was several years after that before PAYG was introduced, so mobile phones weren't just more per minute than a Rabbit, but typically also needed a £30/month subscription. And obviously you had to but two phones - a mobile and a cordless, because mobiles weren't free. As for having a landline, I need it for ADSL. I also think it's a bit rude to expect friends and family to call an expensive mobile number rather than a landline. According to this [1] article in Norwegian, the landline voice network in Norway will be decommissioned before 2017. Telenor says spare parts are in practice not produced any more and the suppliers will end support in 2017. New telephones that looks like and is operated like a traditional telephone, but with a mobile antenna, will be on sale, and also boxes you can plug your old phone into. These will have much better antennas than regular mobiles. Apparently, the biggest challenge lies in converting systems relying on the landline network, like burglar alarms, and safety alarms for the elderly. [1] http://www.amobil.no/artikler/over-o...lefonen/110094 Kind of like analog television here in Britain. Are other European countries planning to do this? |
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