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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
No landline. Totally unnecessary in this day and age. 
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I disagree with that. We have a landline because we have multiple people in our household, not all of whom have cell phones, and one of whom has a life threatening allergy. I can just imagine a scenario where I am out running errands, my husband goes into anaphylactic shock, and my young child is digging through pockets/etc trying to find a phone to call 911, after she's potentially helped administer an epi pen to her dad. A landline is a low-cost safety feature.

What may be slightly less necessary is my insistence that my landline be copper. My landline is always on and we have a corded phone in the kitchen. Our phone is not "on until the backup power supply dies." The power can go out for 5 days, and we will still have phone.

I am risk averse, so I think my belief that a copper landline is necessary is likely to be overkill for some people, but I question the situations where people think landlines aren't necessary at all.

We cut cable television, but I'm unwilling to cut the landline. Call me a paranoid Luddite![/quote]

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