Had the same line at seven different addresses; still have it.

We have two. One was our lifeline during Sandy. Very reluctant to give it up.

I have 2 land lines - will probably give up the one in NYC - but will keep the one in brooklyn.
My office has 6 land lines.

We do, but I must admit no one ever answers it unless we recognize the caller and I implore people not to leave messages on that number since it's rarely checked . However after 30+ years Verizon advised that they would no longer maintain regular lines anymore and insisted that we switch to fiber optics which would not continue to work in a power outage so we switched to a different company. I don't know what will happen in the next superstorm. Hopefully somehow our generator will keep the phones operating but I think if cable goes down so will our phones.

We don't have a generator, just land lines.

A few years ago one of my daughters asked me what a busy signal was.

I have VOIP "landline" that's only used by telemarketers.

what's a fax?

I have a land line number that is run through Verizon Fios. It cost less than the old style line and does require power. Fios installs a battery back up they say should last about 20 hours for emergency use during power outages. That battery is not cheap, about $130 to replace every 3-4 years. I did negotiate the last one before I renewed my contract. Still that line is mostly telemarketers and we may end up cancelling it. As of now part of our cable package.

I also kept my landline ~ on 9/11 cell phones were not working either. It can't hurt to have a back-up phone, and I can decide who to give which number to. (Of course Fred has both!)

We have a landline at home; and my husband keeps talking about getting a fax line and the machine to go with it. I don't think we've ever needed to send a fax from home; but he likes to be prepared. :)

Whatever works. My cell worked fine during Sandy and on 9/11. No land lines here, I have a higher connection.

We have two landlines as we did growing up. One of my longtime friend teases me still because, growing up, our friends were not allowed to use our second line because that was my father's work phone.

Number Please ? When the kids were at home they had their own line and I was the phone Nazi! I hated the sound of the ring and the scrambling to get to the phone first by the girls . The boys could care less. I received an anonymous tip that the FBI might have tapped my personal line so I disconnected it . Never reconnected . The family worried that the Feds would be a knockin ' soon enough ! I associated with some unsavory types up here in the mountains . Sonny Barger amongst others. We were off the grid for awhile and with the advent of cell phones and the Internet we managed to stay in the loop so to speak . Word was that short of a raid the local militia were afraid to come up here. This was back in the day of the meth labs and pot farmers living the recluse lifestyle of the well armed outlaw . I just happened to have bought land right in the middle of it . So as I'm rambling I've lost the point . Oh yeah ...... Landlines. I don't have any . Just guns and dogs .

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