[geeks] International calling question

[Dan Sikorski]

John Francini wrote:
>
> Interesting; my wife and I both have cell phones, but we still have a 
> landline.  I've broached the subject of getting rid of the landline, 
> but that runs into the unanswerable brick wall: "The land line has 
> *never* failed to work for us".  And, modulo someone hitting a 
> telephone pole, it hasn't.  The reliability of the old-tech POTS 
> service is far higher than anything else.  Cable failure happens 
> regularly.  Cell towers can get overloaded.  But the landline keeps 
> humming for us, even when the power fails.
...and this is why I plan to continue POTS service at home for the 
foreseeable future.  I can only remember a couple of times in my 
lifetime that I've had a hiccup or outage with POTS.  I can remember 
that many failures of Cell phone, cable TV, power, DSL or just about any 
other service that i have in the last few years if not the last few 
weeks.  But then, I also still listen to AM and FM radio.

    -Dan Sikorski