On Dec 6, 12:39*pm, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
> > dsi1 > wrote:
> > ...
> >> Landlines should be called "smug phones" cause some folks using them
> >> sure are. :-)
>
> > I'll tell ya this! I can count the number of times my landline phone
> > has been out in 50 years on ONE FINGER!!! And I never have to say "Can
> > you hear me now" except when the person I'm taking to on the phone is
> > on a bloody cell phone!
>
> Land lines just plain work but they are wired to a spot and they care
> about area codes.
>
> Cell phone ___ words and ___ces of words and {pop} they add noises.
> Often they randomly hang up for no apparent reason without so much as a
> vibrate to point out to you that the screen pressed against your ear
> suddenly displays "Call ended" in a way that your ear can't see. *Are
> there folks out there with ears that can see to be able to tell when
> your call just got dropped or do folsk redial every few calls without
> noticing? *The things may as well be walkie talkies for the quality of
> the sound on them. But what walkie talkie has a dailing range of most
> of the civilized world and a local toll free range of most of the
> continent?

My cell phone is dead reliable - mostly because I don't roam all over
the place. I use it as a business line and it affords me enormous
freedom of mobility. Thank you Jesus!