Julie Bove wrote:
>Ema Nymton wrote:
>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>Cheri wrote:
>>>>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "There are no monthly fees associated with the Guardian Alert 911.
>>>>>> Once the unit is plugged into a power outlet and an active landline it
>>>>>> is ready to use. "
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How many people have an active landline phone line anymore? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the older people I know still do. They are the ones most likely
>>>>> to need this.
>>>>
>>>> I do, and I always will have one. I dislike cell phones for
>>>> conversation.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> Cell phone technology is still in caveman mode, 90% of the time when
>>> someone calls me with their cell phone they lose the signal so I hear
>>> less than half they are saying... as I said several times already,
>>> when people call me on a number I recognize as a cell phone I don't pick
>>> up. When someone calls me with a cell phone as soon as they start
>>> losing their signal I hang up, when they call back I don't pick up.
>>> Cell phones are crap for regular conversation, even their sound is
>>> awful.
>>
>> You must live in a bad area, maybe there are not enough cell towers. I
>> chat with people long distance on my cell phone and we have never dropped
>> a call, I hear just as clearly as I do on my landline. I use my cell phone
>> for emergencies and for texting, I would rather text than talk. I pay $99
>> a year and I will never use all of my minutes.
>
>Dropped calls are very common here and they were also common when my husband
>was living in NY. All he had was the cell phone and yet most of the time he
>could not use it from his housing.

Even in the NYC are where there are towers everywhere service sucked.
Here it depends which carrier, if someone is calling with Verizon
service is fine most times, I have direct line of sight to a Verizon
tower, I can see it on a mountain top with my telescope, but none of
the other carriers work well, especially if they are calling from a
moving vehical... the terrain here is far from flat so the signals
bounce off sides of mountains. And the sparse population here doesn't
justify a tower every hundred yards... I'm lucky to have a high speed
DSL line on this road but I doubt I'll ever see Fios here.