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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy land line is ringing every few minutes...
All robocalls from 3rd world scammers. We stopped answering it.
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)Big Surprise, nobody leaves messages
unblock
(52,209 posts)Lol
I haven't answered mine since I got my first answering machine.
drray23
(7,627 posts)where we live my cellphone is 2 bars on good days, zero if its raining/storming.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)because it is more reliable than a cell phone.
Yes, I have a cell & I have had two of them that were working fine one day & when I picked them up the next morning they had gone to cell phone heaven & nothing could bring them back. I live alone, I am not young, I need a phone I can depend on.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)We'd chat about nothing, reminisce and laugh. It's a completely different experience on a cell and I keep it short and to the point. I don't know how I'd date now without a landline; how would you get to know someone without long calls?
unblock
(52,209 posts)We kept our land line as a backup for years, only got rid of it recently after the signal finally became more reliable.
yonder
(9,664 posts)Haven't answered any. There's been a real uptick in those calls this week.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,854 posts)I don't anticipate getting rid of it.
I get a reasonable share of robo calls, but I simply hang up as soon as I figure that out. Most of the time, even though I'm supposed to have caller ID, the system doesn't capture the phone number of the caller. I have a friend I talk to every single day, and his name and number show up maybe a third of the time. So if I never answered the phone if I couldn't see a known number, I'd miss a lot of his calls.
Although if for any reason I don't feel like answering a particular call, I know that if it's important enough a message will be left.
Happy Hoosier
(7,305 posts)No one ever called it except scammers.
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)connection to my phone(s) that I can unplug if I get persistent junk callers. Caller ID may be the best
thing that ever happened to phone service!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)To the do not call list.
This shit got worse by far since trump.
drray23
(7,627 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)But what about shithead telemarketers,scammers spam calls. They were prohibited.