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UEMcGill UEMcGill OP
Feb 22, 2024 at 06:43 PM ET
Let it be known, on this day, the 22nd of February, in the year of our Lord
2024, a cellular outage caused some to visit 1995 and they damn near lost their simple minds. The horror of such a situation is unimaginable. ** Edited by UEMcGill at 2/22/2024, 6:43:29 PM

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KeoweeHokie KeoweeHokie
The chi-coms are gonna chi-com
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EDGEMAN
Just giving us a taste of what they'll do when they invade Taiwan.
In addition to the cyber attacks, they'll have actual sabotage with those thousands of "military aged" CHICOM men who have walked across our southern border these last few years. You're going to see real damage once they set their plans into action...and that will be all across the US.
HokieGator HokieGator
All my communication methods worked fine today ...
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HOKIERIT
Actually, it IS a pretty big deal. I no longer have a landline since we->
recently moved. I was on the golf course & at the club most all day, so never even noticed...BUT, what would happen at home if we had an emergency and no cell phone service to call 911 or something? I thought about that when I heard it on the news this morning before leaving for the course. It sort of gave me 'pause" to think about
UEMcGill UEMcGill OP
All those that lost there minds weren't worried about making a 911 call.
Unless it would've been to call 911 to report an emergency - that their cell phone wasn't working.
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HOKIERIT
Oh yeah..I agree. I wasn't freaking by any stretch, but it did occur to me
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EDGEMAN
Get OOMA service for your home.
coshokie coshokie
Haven't had a landline since sometime in early 2000 and have survived.
** Edited by coshokie at 2/22/2024, 7:16:16 PM
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HOKIERIT
I know...most people DON'T have a landline. Verizon made my bundle cheaper>
with the landline than without. Ou here, t is Xfinity and they don't care. Thing is, we are getting older and some day may need 911...I'll just have to count on cell outages being few and far between. We had no service problems today at my house according to my wife
Hokie CPA Hokie CPA
And that is why I still have the same land line I've had since 1995.
Even kept the same number having changed from Bell Atlantic to Verizon to Cox and then moving from Bayside to Kempsville.
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HOKIERIT
Had the same number for 35 years through 2 moves. Kind of hated to lose it
MP4VT2004 MP4VT2004
I wonder if landlines are vulnerable to such an attack.
I'm assuming a modern landline network is controlled by equipment that is connected to the internet, but I'm pretty much clueless about how that stuff works.
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HokieJamie
I think its all voip
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HOKIERIT
I had a real landline up until last year when I retired and closed ->
my office. Also had VOIP home phone "landline" as part of Verizon Bundle
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HOKIERIT
Good question.. I don't know either
MAHokie69 MAHokie69
It depends
If your "landline" is through your cable company, it is voice over IP (VOIP) and is susceptible to internet, but not cellular, outages If you still have an old school. telephony landline, that may be isolated from the internet and cellular networks
MP4VT2004 MP4VT2004
Yeah, I kinda figured...was mainly wondering if anyone actually...
...offers a POTS line at this point, or if it's just all some form of VOIP.
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HOKIERIT
I had both. My hone landline was VOIP, my business line in office was hard>
wired traditional phone
pburg_hokie pburg_hokie
My parents have VOIP and don’t understand that’s not landline
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KCHokie2
Fortunately the network theme is catchy. And brings to mind the 85 Bears.