I am thinking about dropping my home phone in favor of a cell.
Edited on Sun Sep-18-05 06:58 PM by Wcross
My phone company (Bellsouth) can not seem to provide me with continuous connectivity on my home phone line. I work an odd work-week and I am home during the weekday on some days. I lose my dial tone on average, once or twice a week from around noon til 7pm. There have been 2-3 day outages in the past few months. I am thinking about going to a cell phone and dropping the land line. What are the drawbacks? Has anybody had any experience with doing that? I keep thinking that it would be better to have a cell than a land-line.
The big problem is dropping phone calls/not getting reception when you need it. It can be a major annoyance, but it doesn't happen enough for me to justify getting a land line. Depends on how much you need absolute reliability.
I dropped down a bare-bones service plan that pretty much just gives me a dial tone. The cell phones were a better value, mainly because SBC sucks so bad.
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