You can't silence them is exactly why my grandparents got rid of theirs over a decade ago. The only people that would call them on the landlines non-stop were spam and telemarketers, not worth the hassle.

@@nac.mac.feeglewhich you can silence

You can block certain phone numbers from calling you on a landlines

You can silence them. ✂️ just cut them :p

They shouldn't be polling anyway... Polls just make politicians stupider/sneaky and don't give an accurate view to the electorate on the candidates' real views/policies.

If it plugs into a router, you're actually calling through the internet not an actual exchange

​@@kreuner11yeah pots is dead, it's all VoIP now even if it is a traditional landline attached. Very few areas still have regular pots service without internet or tv bundled in

…landlines have caller ID

Buy one with caller id

I’m trying to figure out how this is newsworthy over literally anything going on in the world. It amazes me how redundant this channel is. Who uses landlines? Fucking businesses? Wooww

I'm glad our dsl internet is still way better than most satellite internet services at half the cost in the middle of nowhere😂

Yup, Grand Parent's place in the mountains (not even far out of town) kept the landline due to weather and or depending on what side of the house you were on the cell phone didn't work. (WiFi calling helps, but even that can drop)

You could live where my parents live where for some reason even though it's part of the city the cell service is so bad you have to use Wi-Fi calling.

Yeah my grandpa still has one and he's in the mountains We don't have fiber here personally but like it's fine enough we get 20 megabits

Yup my parents live in Wyoming and the internet is spotty at best on a good day. The land line is far more reliable. My parents have cell phones and my mom will sometimes use hers but my dads is an old flip phone and he only has it for emergencies to make a call. He doesn’t understand how to use or send text messages at all. So yes the 1980’s or older ways just work better for him.

Is it possible that the landline is _why_ they have a hearing impairment?

That and dexterity, my parents are 80 and can’t press the small buttons, especially not a touchscreen. They got a new dishwasher and absolutely can not turn the damn thing on because it’s not a physical button 😂 I feel bad laughing but I thought my dad was going to strangle the service tech when he said it’s user error, because the dishwasher is fine

Also mostly likely the case is that they are comfortable with a landline so they just continue to use it

@@Axius27 Lol, they only set it that loud as their hearing disappeared. That's what I don't really get about cellphones, in that they could increase volume in relation to hearing loss with the landlines, but not on a mobile?

@@mspaint93 I think it has to do with an increased understanding of hearing loss, the physical size of the speaker, and the fact that a mobile phone has to only cover the distance between your pocket to your ear at most, whereas a landline phone needs to be heard throughout a house.

That's awesome thats adorable

I restored a rotary phone and had to get a landmine service for the joy of using it

I'm 57, and own an M&M's phone. 🤣

I keep a landline to call my friends from the “house phone” makes me care about the celly less

HELL YEAH!! When I was younger my dad found a Snoopy phone at a thrift shop, WE HAD TO GET IT!! That thing was so sick!!!! It was a SAD DAY when we got rid of it..

That's why I had a landline when I used from previous ISP the phone was included and it was a nice backup

As someone who works as an ISP technician there are a lot of people that are surprised they have phone service because they just picked the cheapest option when signing up. They aren't the worst idea to have though. A fair amount of modern phone systems will actually send your address to 911 dispatchers if you call so even if you can't speak for one reason or another they still know where to go.

yep, for a long time we had phone(land line), internet, & cable because combined was cheaper than internet & cable without the phone current plan is cell, internet, & cable so

Those landlines are VOIPs. The difference between them and “real” landlines (the kind with the little plug into the wall) is that when the power goes out, original landlines still work.

@@GrumpyOldFart2 I'm sure it depends on the ISP, but I'm pretty sure that the land lines I've seen offered are actual "hardlines" going over the phone wires (as opposed to going through the cable modem). Again, I'm sure it varies from region to region and between providers.

😂😂I think in my old house(a converted farmhouse) we might have had one in early 90s🎯

That's the ringtone my school district always used 😂

That’s the hospitals ring tone, I looked behind me to make sure I wasn’t hearing things 😂

This explains the phone system at my job so well It was just off enough I could tell it wasn’t a true landline but I didn’t know why.

Yeah, people like the buttons though. I like the buttons to be honest, so I don't have to sort through windows on my screen. You could do away with the handset though. No one uses that.

Phones are still more reliable than Teams.

There are several companies that make headset earpieces with paired wireless or bluetooth stands which are designed to emulate the experience of picking up a phone call on a landline for people who insist that they can't wear headphones all day. Some of them are really nice and have touch-screen displays to show incoming call identification and allow you to make calls directly from the stand/dock. Personally, I'd never bother and would just keep a headset on all day instead. I suspect that they're mainly just so executives can pimp their desks and make themselves look superior.

Or any other soft phone solution

Exactly. We have a landline in case of emergencies. We hardly ever use it, but every now and then it comes in clutch. For example if someone is home and their cell is on silent and you need to get ahold of them urgently. Or if the power goes out and the cell phones die, it's a good backup.

Even in the flat parts of the country big companies don't see much profit from rural folks so getting service is far down the totem pole it might as well be 6 feet under

@@kreuner11 until the internet goes down.

@@gregdubya1993 of an event occurs that shuts the internet, i dont think the phone network would survive either. Most modern exchanges connect to the internet or use the same infrastructure anyway

@@kreuner11 I meant local and temporary not apocalyptic

@@kreuner11Buddy not like every internet everywhere stops working, like “Sorry for the interruption teachers but our Wi-Fi is currently down. We’re working on it but we don’t know when it’ll be fixed.”

Those aren’t landlines, those are PBX system phones which are connected to the PSTN.

When i moved and got broadband connected BT disconnected the land line and gave us a router that connected our landline phones over the internet.

In the 1990’s having a landline was to be expected, definitely not anymore. Businesses using landlines was kinda the whole point of the video, everyone was at work… not home

You might have bigger problems in that case than a landline can fix

Yep. My Aunt lived on Long Island during Hurricane Sandy. She had a true landline (not VOIP) and she was the only person on her block that had phone service.

I love when old people refer to the internet as the app.😂

You mean you’re telling your parents to keep paying for spam calls

Same here! I don’t live at home anymore (actually I’m across the country) but I still love seeing the landline when I go home. It’s comforting for some reason, and gives me this weird feeling of stability lol

You don’t get unlimited minutes? I thought all cell phone plans came with unlimited call and text these days. I DO remember the days when that was not the case though!

@jennifergraceh Yeah around where I'm at unlimited plans are expensive, so it's not that big of an issue, plus it allows us to put all the routine calls and stuff like doctors and services like pest control or an electrician and the like so our phones aren't getting called 24/7

It’s dexterity, hearing & visual impairment that comes with aging. Landline phones ring so much louder and in the range that’s easier to hear and seniors struggle to press small buttons on cellphones and touchscreens are even worse

for stationary businesses sure, always assuring if someone i hire is legit and know where to find them in case something is messed up( if i can't find the person to serve papers, i can always go to their business location, regardless i did the best i could to serve, rather the guy running to another state/country and no lawsuit to pursue)