Why?

[telstar_1]

My brother can't get fiber 1/2 mi. from town limits of my fibered town. There are no poles (electricity comes from the other, out-of-town direction) and even if there were, the fiber system is all underground-run. They could maybe run it, but it would have to cross a crick. There's the cable co., but only on poles. Same with DSL. He's been on a town WISP, but connection getting spottier, maybe from trees. I told him that satellite (like hughesnet) is the usual far-rural option, but I forgot about starlink. He still probably wouldn't want an Elon Musk service. Maybe some cellular-derived deal?

 

[telstar_1]

I'm a decade ahead of you, in my late 30s and I 100% agree.

While I don't have POTS due to Verizon's incredibly poor maintenance of the lines around here I do have Spectrum Voice as well as HughesNet Voice as my 'landlines'. I prefer talking on a landline versus a smartphone. I don't find holding a glass slab to my ear comfortable at all and a good quality landline connection beats a cell phone any day. For my handset, I have an EnGenius Durafon Pro which I can use for slightly over a mile in each direction from home with the high gain antenna.

I have a collection of voice providers at my disposal, and when at home it's the landline that is used exclusively

Spectrum – Primary voice provider
HughesNet – Back up for when power (or cable) goes out
T-Mobile – Primary mobile provider, No Service at home
FirstNet (AT&T) – Secondary mobile provider, -123 dBm band 14 LTE at home
Verizon Wireless – Work provided mobile provider, -121 dBm band 13 LTE at home

I'm wondering why couldn't there be a classically-presenting phone with corded (or cordless) receiver that's tied to a smartphone (or smartphones?) Such that when a call comes, it not only lights up the iPhone but rings the "old" phone and you can either take the call on that or just on the smartphone. It would just be like another wifi or bluetooth peripheral

 

[harshness]

I'm wondering why couldn't there be a classically-presenting phone with corded (or cordless) receiver that's tied to a smartphone (or smartphones?) Such that when a call comes, it not only lights up the iPhone but rings the "old" phone and you can either take the call on that or just on the smartphone. It would just be like another wifi or bluetooth peripheral.

What would be the point?

That's a lot of extra work to address your failure to keep your wireless (or cordless) phone charged.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I'm wondering why couldn't there be a classically-presenting phone with corded (or cordless) receiver that's tied to a smartphone (or smartphones?) Such that when a call comes, it not only lights up the iPhone but rings the "old" phone and you can either take the call on that or just on the smartphone. It would just be like another wifi or bluetooth peripheral

I think there is. I keep seeing ads for it on TV. Some kind of corded phone with a texting readout for the visually/hearing imparied.

 

[Juan]

My brother can't get fiber 1/2 mi. from town limits of my fibered town. There are no poles (electricity comes from the other, out-of-town direction) and even if there were, the fiber system is all underground-run. They could maybe run it, but it would have to cross a crick. There's the cable co., but only on poles. Same with DSL. He's been on a town WISP, but connection getting spottier, maybe from trees. I told him that satellite (like hughesnet) is the usual far-rural option, but I forgot about starlink. He still probably wouldn't want an Elon Musk service. Maybe some cellular-derived deal?

They run fiber on poles

 

[rvvaquero]

I'm wondering why couldn't there be a classically-presenting phone with corded (or cordless) receiver that's tied to a smartphone (or smartphones?) Such that when a call comes, it not only lights up the iPhone but rings the "old" phone and you can either take the call on that or just on the smartphone. It would just be like another wifi or bluetooth peripheral

I've had one for over five years. Is this what you're wishing for? Link2Cell Cordless Phone - KX-TGF57x Series

Cordless Telephones

 

[comfortably_numb]

I think this is what I've seen advertised on TV-

LP Google-Blue

clearcaptions.com

 

[telstar_1]

I think there is. I keep seeing ads for it on TV. Some kind of corded phone with a texting readout for the visually/hearing imparied.

What would be the point?

That's a lot of extra work to address your failure to keep your wireless (or cordless) phone charged.

This would not involve a landline.

I think there is. I keep seeing ads for it on TV. Some kind of corded phone with a texting readout for the visually/hearing imparied.

Those are landline phones for challenged seniors. My dad tried a couple of them. God-awfully loud ring; I could hear it for 100s of feet outside of the house, and they weren't exactly a snap to use. I was in process of putting him on iPhone when he died.

I've had one for over five years. Is this what you're wishing for? Link2Cell Cordless Phone - KX-TGF57x Series

Cordless Telephones

That would seem to be it- something on this order would seem like a no-brainer base smart-home deal. You come home, set your mobile phone aside or onto charger and then receive/send its notifications, texts & calls- basically, "use it" other than for all apps, on multiple handsets in the home, like in the landline days. Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, etc. Intercom, monitoring, great added features. I would have to think that there could be tech to just "mirror" your mobile use on multiple handsets around the house so you don't have to schlep your device everywhere you are, while home.

I think this is what I've seen advertised on TV-

LP Google-Blue

clearcaptions.com

Nope, that's another of the dumb, loud phones.

 

[Bruce]

They run fiber on poles

Not in my subdivision, last year, they buried the cable across the street from my house, started burying fiber on Tuesday, on my side of the street, did in front of my house today.

Quantum Fiber, owned by Century Link (Lumen), soon to be owned by AT&T.

 

[telstar_1]

They run fiber on poles

Not around here either, within and between small-to midsized towns. All underground. But it's a newer provider, not an incumbent like the phone or cable co's which have been on poles.

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[Juan]

Not around here either, within and between small-to midsized towns. All underground. But it's a newer provider, not an incumbent like the phone or cable co's which have been on poles.

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Most places they have to dig up roads and sidewalks to bury cable...I would think they would be treated like a cable company and the teleco would be forced to lease space on the pole

 

[b4pjoe]

They run fiber on poles

Underground here in a rural Illinois small town.

 

[klang]

Fiber on the existing electrical poles around here, no idea how widespread that is. Buried on the main street but on the poles between the streets. No poles on my side of the street so I am out of luck.

 

[Bruce]

Most places they have to dig up roads and sidewalks to bury cable...I would think they would be treated like a cable company and the teleco would be forced to lease space on the pole

Went under my driveway just today, the only thing dug up, was the ground.

 

[b4pjoe]

Went under my driveway just today, the only thing dug up, was the ground.

Same here they don't dig up any sidewalks or streets. They use a horizontal boring tool to go under things like that.

 

[Bruce]

Same here they don't dig up any sidewalks or streets. They use a horizontal boring tool to go under things like that.

I believe Juan is in extra trolling mode the last few days, we all keep falling into his Rabbit Hole.

 

[Juan]

I believe Juan is in extra trolling mode the last few days, we all keep falling into his Rabbit Hole.

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Could you stop the personal attacks?.. its much much cheaper to install and maintain fiber on poles...you don't need an excavating crew to splice a bad fiber..just sayin

 

[harshness]

Nope, that's another of the dumb, loud phones.

All of these phones have an option to control the ringer volume as well as the speaker function volume. Is that what you're biasing your evaluation on?

 

[Bruce]

Could you stop the personal attacks?..

I wrote I believe, which was my opinion, not a personal attack.

its much much cheaper to install and maintain fiber on poles...you don't need an excavating crew to splice a bad fiber..just sayin

Not what you wrote-

Most places they have to dig up roads and sidewalks to bury cable...I would think they would be treated like a cable company and the teleco would be forced to lease space on the pole

They have been digging and burying cable all around Orange/Osceloa counties here, Frontier, AT&T and Quantum, the majority of the subdivisions have underground utilities

 

[harshness]

Most places they have to dig up roads and sidewalks to bury cable.

While they may choose to go that route, excavation hasn't been required for a long time to underground cables and conduits (even electricity).