I only have a land line because of a package discount rate on my Comcast bundle. When that expires I will give up the landline forever. Right now it is used primarily as the phone number I give businesses and anyone else I think I may get spam calls from.

I have four kids at my house – I keep my home phone for them plus in case of emergencies everybody has easy access to a phone that even the younger ones can find easily and dial 911. But I don’t use it that much – it’s also the phone number I give out because I don’t answer it much.

We got rid of our land line two years ago when we realized the only calls we received on that line were from Michele Bachmann!! No need to answer those, so my husband, myself, and our 3 kids all use cell phones. It has worked out great for us and no annoying calls to answer!

Anybody else wonder why it’s the CDC doing this study? Is this where our tax dollars are going? If anyone wanted to know it should be the FCC…

The results show that low income people are the ones who don’t have landlines? I am not low income and I only have a cell phone. That makes me pretty smart. Why do I need two phone lines? That is almost $500 a year down the drain people.

A LAND LINE IS NOT part of comcast…

A land line is a SEPARATE wire from your coaxial. It’s a 4 pin wire meant to provide 48 volts. Even in a power outage – your phone will work on these, PROVIDED it’s not a cordless phone (because those require power)

Fyi to all who are no longer using a landline. If you ever need to call 911 you do not have to give you address if you call from a landline, they automatically see the address you are calling from and can dispatch right away. If you are calling from a cellphone they can get a close range within about 10 blocks but cannot see exactly where you are calling from. It is best and the safest to keep a landline in your home just for that reason alone. If there is a serious emergency what if you cannot give your address? or what if someone who is calling that doesnt live there so doesnt know the address? Or what if you just dont have time its a life and death situation? It’s best to be safe and keep a landline in your home, even if you never have to call 911, it’s always good to know its there just in case.

Well, again, as with their iPad streaming, Comcast is trying real hard to catch up, but here again, they’ve been beat. Don’t get me wrong, if I was a Comcast customer, I’d be ecstatic that I could now use my smart phone as a glorified remote control. However, being a DISH customer/employee? Umm, that’s not enough. I can already watch Live TV and Recorded events off my receiver using my smart phone, tablet, or laptop, anywhere in the world I can find a 3G connection. The technology is obviously out there, I just can’t figure out why Comcast isn’t really implementing it.