I can it is necessary at a business location, only reason I can see to have one in a residential setting is perhaps for a fax machine, those are even old technology.
I haven't had a landline in about 15 years, even 80 + year old people have cellphones....they may not know much about how to use them but can at least make/receive calls .
Those crooked cable TV companies like Concast always want to bundle that in there, like it is worth something, screw them I'll use a TV antenna and my phone for internet access.
You can get unlimited talk/ text and a token 1 gig of data for as cheap as $15/ month, a landline is like having an electric typewriter... people were giving them away 25 years ago.
Phones and phone service are the best examples of something that has gotten so much better and cheaper over the years.
Back around 1983 or so a coast to coast call was very expensive, go back a couple of decades and people shared phones with party lines and poor Oliver Wendell Douglas had to climb a pole to answer his phone back in Fishhead's town !
I haven't had a landline in about 15 years, even 80 + year old people have cellphones....they may not know much about how to use them but can at least make/receive calls .
Those crooked cable TV companies like Concast always want to bundle that in there, like it is worth something, screw them I'll use a TV antenna and my phone for internet access.
You can get unlimited talk/ text and a token 1 gig of data for as cheap as $15/ month, a landline is like having an electric typewriter... people were giving them away 25 years ago.
Phones and phone service are the best examples of something that has gotten so much better and cheaper over the years.
Back around 1983 or so a coast to coast call was very expensive, go back a couple of decades and people shared phones with party lines and poor Oliver Wendell Douglas had to climb a pole to answer his phone back in Fishhead's town !