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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

I have a cell phone I make calls on once or twice a month and receive calls on once every few months. It's my wife's old iPhone 7. She had to get a new one a couple of years ago because the iPhone 7 was too old to communicate with her car. I had a flip phone before that. We have a land line but don't know for how much longer. We're rural and AT&T wants to get rid of the land lines, probably because of maintenance. The thing is if the power goes off, the land line stays on and is our only way of making calls out, since we have to use wifi for the cell phones.

Before we downsized and sold our old home, I insisted that we keep a land line. We had it stripped down to as cheap as possible, and didn't normally use it, but when a storm hit, it was nice to have as a backup to cell phones. We haven't had a land line for almost 10 years now (will hit 10 years the end of Aug). Fortunately, dead cell service is pretty rare these days, but I'm sure it'll happen at some point.