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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom,uk.telecom.voip
Subject: Re: Interconnection with POTS
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:27:51 +0000
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David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> writes:

> In message <82cy28uyuy.fsf@example.com>
>           Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> > > specialise dinfrastructure to be maintained.  Increasing numbers of
>> > > people (me included) have ditched land lines, since mobile phones do
>> > > the job better.  Those who want to retain a service equivalent to POTS
>> > > can use VoIP, which uses the same infrastructure as everything else
>> > > that moves our data around.
>> > 
>> > So true, why would any one want a phone that only works when plugged in
>> > to a wall socket...
>> > 
>> 
>> Because you can have a mobile phone aswell, but the landline is better,
>> because mobile phones are crap.
>
> I suspect you've not been using a decent, modern mobile phone, because
> my experience is the opposite.

Perhaps you have a good signal in your house. I don't. But then often
the people I am talking to don't have a good signal either, and whole
words can get chopped out, changing the meaning of the sentence.

> Plus my mobile is always with me, so I
> can use it all over the place - I'm not restricted to just at home.
> And of course my smartphone can do hugely more stuff than any landline
> ever could.

But as I said, I can have both, I don't have to choose one or the other.