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Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by cfn »

timonoko wrote: post #5

You will never forget the numbers. Bloody waste of memory bits. 113 (1952) ; Human operator on small island 444303 (1958) 782502 (1966) 1484997 (1978) ; My first personal phone, It was also routed to my cell phone until 2018.

I still remember my parent´s home landline from 30+ years ago (long gone) but I have no idea of what is my current one or any other of the many I have had to have over years due to telecoms´ bundles. They are not useful anymore, not even as a resilient second line since they are connected to the same fibre line. It is just a gimmick to extract a few more euros from the consumer.

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by daledavies »

account-5 wrote: post #9

In the UK, unless you're on virgin (there might be a few others I'm unaware of), you're pretty much forced to have a landline for which you're charged line rental, even if you don't or will never use it.

Things seem to be changing. We're with BT and would have had to pay a lot extra for a phone line.

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by mytailorisrich »

account-5 wrote: post #9

In the UK, unless you're on virgin (there might be a few others I'm unaware of), you're pretty much forced to have a landline for which you're charged line rental, even if you don't or will never use it.

I am with Vodafone and the standard broadband fee includes the landline.

But yes, there is still always a landline required and thus has to be priced in somehow.

Now they have deployed full fibre so I could ditch everything and move to that but that would be more expensive...

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by iforgotpassword »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #8

Around 2012-2013, my 5/6-ish year old daughter found an old wired phone I kept around and she was astonished when I told her that wires used to connect phones. "You need wires to phone call? But why!" A few years back, in India, competition amongst the ISP/Telephone providers were heating up and everything became so cheap and readily available. I got Jio for fun, and then Airtel in hope to stop them from calling/text…

I still have a landline at home that I basically never use, "just in case". When I had a co-worker over a few years ago he brought his ~8yo, and it was a similar story. A wired phone was totally fascinating for him. Never mind that cell phones are tiny, are powered from a battery and make your voice travel through the air to as far away as you want, and even make it possible to see the person you're taking to. No, that's normal and boring. But when I used that phone to call his dad who was over in the living room, he was completely amazed and told his dad that he's calling him with that wired phone in the kitchen.

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Post by GekkePrutser »

account-5 wrote: post #9

In the UK, unless you're on virgin (there might be a few others I'm unaware of), you're pretty much forced to have a landline for which you're charged line rental, even if you don't or will never use it.

Here too in Spain though on pretty much all providers (mine is orange) though it's not really a real landline but VOIP.

I keep mine disconnected because all I get on it is spam.

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by steakunderscore »

account-5 wrote: post #9

In the UK, unless you're on virgin (there might be a few others I'm unaware of), you're pretty much forced to have a landline for which you're charged line rental, even if you don't or will never use it.

At least in London there's a few others like: - Hyperopic - Comunity fibre - g.network

I'm sure there are more

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

In the event of a disaster (earthquake, flood, blizzard) is voip infrastructure more or less 'fragile' than a copper landline?

I assume this deprication will probably be cost related but I am curious about the implications on the emergency side of things.

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by cujaneway »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #13
account-5 wrote: post #9

In the UK, unless you're on virgin (there might be a few others I'm unaware of), you're pretty much forced to have a landline for which you're charged line rental, even if you don't or will never use it.

I am with Vodafone and the standard broadband fee includes the landline. But yes, there is still always a landline required and thus has to be priced in somehow. Now they have deployed full fibre so I could ditch everything and move to that but that would be more expensive...

I'm with Vodafone too but I didn't need a line rental, I wonder if they've changed their policy as I only got mine a couple years ago.

Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported

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Post by timonoko »

timonoko wrote: post #5

You will never forget the numbers. Bloody waste of memory bits. 113 (1952) ; Human operator on small island 444303 (1958) 782502 (1966) 1484997 (1978) ; My first personal phone, It was also routed to my cell phone until 2018.

Apropos. I can never remember my current phone number. Because it is never used. But they ask it anyway sometimes. So I have termux shortcut button to:

    termux-volume music 15
    while true; do
     termux-tts-speak -l fi 5 5 5 1 2 3 4 5
     sleep 1
    done
Works like a charm and all errors are at the receiving end.
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