I’m forced to deal with two companies that routinely rank lower in public polling than any of the military industrial companies (also Twitter!): Comcast and Verizon. The only company to provide a signal for my neighborhood is Verizon Wireless, and it sometimes reaches two bars. Yay. The only provider of internet (bundled with home phone) is Comcast. So I have a landline because I must. There’s not a lot of choice anymore with home phones, so when mine stopped working, I bought more of the same. Yay. My thinking went like this:
Pro: I’d like to reliably speak with others from my home Con: It’s the 2020’s!
Pro: At this stage of life, my ambition is to be know as a curmudgeon Con: Comcast sucks and I don’t always have a reliable line
Pro: Entropy, I will not change what I’m already doing. Con: None, you can’t fight entropy
I was going to post a picture of my new phones, but dog photos are always better.
We’re in a similar situation here in Varina.
Our internet connection is via a Verizon serviced landline because we refuse to subscribe (read: surrender) to the price gauging and inconsistent “service” offered by Comcast in our rural setting.
We live in a house that still has “phone jacks” & I’m about ready to resurrect the rotary phones. After that, we may truly be “off the grid”!