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Originally Posted by Zeke
Been using my old disconnect number for 10 years. It's mostly just a way to identify you like a password. If it's ever reassigned I pity the person who gets it.
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When we moved into our house 21 years ago we had no cell phones, and we got a new land line number for our exchange. We kept getting crazy phone calls from people wanting to know about their investments with a oil and gas company. One time in the middle of the night some German called and demanded I help him with information. I told him in not real diplomatic terms, that company is gone, dissolved, bankrupt, and I have nothing to do with them and do not call again.
I finally called 555-1212 and for the information and asked for the number of the company. They gave me my number. So I said, wait, we have a problem. She reported it to the supervisor and week later when I called and asked the same question it said they had no listing. Score.
If you dig deep enough on the search engines you can find old documents from that company with my land line number on it.
I would be happy to get rid of it. I long ago switched it to a Ooma service so it is $4.95 per month TCIP number. My wife insists we keep it.
Happy wife = happy life and it is not worth the argument to kill the number. We have the ringers turned off. If you call and don't leave a message, we will never know. All the BS callers that do leave a message (mostly politicians) just get deleted. We might get one call per month from a someone that has our cell numbers but wants to call on the land line so we don't use cell minutes. Of course, we have unlimited call time on the cell plan so it is no help to call on the land line.
I my push again to kill the land line as the election draws closer the calls pick up. All will get deleted.