Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported
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#2> In connection with the remediation of the copper network, we have been clear that no one should lose their phone. Either we move them to fiber or mobile. For some very few people, we have been forced to find special solutions.
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#3Tbh it came as a bit of shock for me. Purely because of the sentimental value. I haven't had a landline in almost 20 years but I still remember the phone number we grew up with. Once I start a family I also thought "the family" needed a phone number, not just a phone number to each person. I guess that is still possible over mobile phone lines though. I was surprised nevertheless.
Re: Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported
#4Tbh it came as a bit of shock for me. Purely because of the sentimental value. I haven't had a landline in almost 20 years but I still remember the phone number we grew up with. Once I start a family I also thought "the family" needed a phone number, not just a phone number to each person. I guess that is still possible over mobile phone lines though. I was surprised nevertheless.
I have wondered what the closest thing for a "family" contact number might be. At least in the US.
One idea that came to mind was a family GMRS license. Cheap and FCC-official for the whole family, but until the spec is modified there might be a tiny distance issue. :-)
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#5You 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.
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#6Tbh it came as a bit of shock for me. Purely because of the sentimental value. I haven't had a landline in almost 20 years but I still remember the phone number we grew up with. Once I start a family I also thought "the family" needed a phone number, not just a phone number to each person. I guess that is still possible over mobile phone lines though. I was surprised nevertheless.
I have wondered what the closest thing for a "family" contact number might be. At least in the US. One idea that came to mind was a family GMRS license. Cheap and FCC-official for the whole family, but until the spec is modified there might be a tiny distance issue. :-)
The universal family contact in the US is now “[familyname555]@[cablecarrier].com/net”
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#7Tbh it came as a bit of shock for me. Purely because of the sentimental value. I haven't had a landline in almost 20 years but I still remember the phone number we grew up with. Once I start a family I also thought "the family" needed a phone number, not just a phone number to each person. I guess that is still possible over mobile phone lines though. I was surprised nevertheless.
I’m guessing the numbers will stay and it connects to a VOIP phone plugged into the router.
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#8Around 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/texting/spamming me. Now, I have two additional Internet fibers coming in besides the primary, and they came with free (I think, Unlimited) phone calls. So, I added two wired phones and kept them.
Now, my 2nd daughter (5-ish year old) is intrigue and knows she can talk to her grandparents on the other end. She is brimming with triumph and fun that she knows the "numbers to grandma and grandpa."
Growing up, phones were a luxury and I know the ins-out of the only telephone exchange in our tiny home-town, where I know quite a few top executives (friends' father/uncles). I love the nostalgia of having a wired phone and I want that rotary ones.
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#9In 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.
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#10You 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.
Wow. This is Gold. I used to remember historical dates for school by adding/mixing with phone numbers. I had my "phone-diary" with a cryptic number pattern for each page (just in case, it got lost or stolen). I had my first personal (mobile) phone/number in 2000 and that was a fresh start.