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The Humble House Phone.

  • 29-07-2020 9:01am
    #1
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭


    Is it still a a thing within Irish Households or has everyone gone mobile?


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  • #2
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Still have a landline, and both a corded and cordless handsets used daily.

    House in an area with a poor enough mobile signal across all providers.


  • #3
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭xabi


    Still have one, my Mother is the only one that calls it.


  • #4
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    phone.jpg


  • #5
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,688 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Nah it's long gone. I have calls on my VM package I never even hooked a phone up to the modem.


  • #6
    Elwood_Blues
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭Elwood_Blues


    Mobile all the way these days. Do have the option with Virgin to use a phone plugged into their router as they provide a home phone of sorts but have never used it.


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  • #7
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    I know there one as part of my VM package but have never used it. I'm not even sure where it is.

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



  • #8
    bittihuduga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭bittihuduga


    have the dual set cordless connected to VM.
    not sure anyone else knows the number other than me and wifey.
    my 7 year old uses the handset to ring me on mobile when she has trouble with mommy ;-)


  • #9
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Still have a house phone but these days it's hooked up to the internet modem as opposed to the telephone network. As far as I'm aware there is no fixed charge and we only pay for some calls, so there's no extra cost in having it. Lots of free calls to other international landlines that aren't available from the mobile networks.

    I still use Web based free phone apps but they're not as convenient as a permanent phone (IMO) and the quality of service isn't as consistent.


  • #10
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Still have a home phone, the only calls I get on it are scams so I never answer it. I keep meaning to ask Virgin to take it away, but I think I get a slight discount for having it. Presumably so Virgin can sell my phone no to all those scammers.


  • #11
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,507 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    I find it great when I have to send a fax. Only reason I have it.


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  • #12
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Also, you won't get the same feels making a call from your mobile or PC as from this beauty:

    sr1v4zdu49221.jpg
    Telecom Eireann used to sell (& rent) these as one of their standard sets.


  • #13
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Still have a landline and the usual type cordless phone.

    A while ago I bought a corded old style phone that doesn't need external power.
    Meaning I can still make phone calls when the electricity and internet have gone and the mobile battery happens to be empty.


    Hashtag zombie apocalypse :D


  • #14
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I got a new landline number a few months ago when I upgraded the place to Eir fibre. I then invested a twenty-spot in Panasonic's finest beige plastic, just to commission the thing and have some sort of backup should cellular ever go titsup.com. I never use it.


  • #15
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    peasant wrote: »
    Still have a landline and the usual type cordless phone.

    A while ago I bought a corded old style phone that doesn't need external power.
    Meaning I can still make phone calls when the electricity and internet have gone and the mobile battery happens to be empty...

    Nice and old-school. I see the landline plugs into the modem under the fibre setup, so my one does depend on the electrickery.


  • #16
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Nice and old-school. I see the landline plugs into the modem under the fibre setup, so my one does depend on the electrickery.

    I run the electricity off the gas and the gas off the electricity. It saves around 200 a year on insulation


  • #17
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Also, you won't get the same feels making a call from your mobile or PC as from this beauty:

    sr1v4zdu49221.jpg
    Telecom Eireann used to sell (& rent) these as one of their standard sets.

    Wicklow looks too far south on that map. I couldn’t look at that all day!

    In 4 years we have received on call on the landline - from Sky who provide the landline!


  • #18
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    I once befriended a lonely badger...

    It did NOT have a landline! The End. :)


  • #19
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Locked keys in my van yesterday along with mobile and went to my parents house to use their phone (landline). I actually had to stop for a split second before i lifted it, to remember what to do. It was also a strange feeling just standing there talking and to thew person on the other end and being unable to walk around. Horrendous experience all told. :)


  • #20
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Locked keys in my van yesterday along with mobile and went to my parents house to use their phone (landline). I actually had to stop for a split second before i lifted it, to remember what to do. It was also a strange feeling just standing there talking and to thew person on the other end and being unable to walk around. Horrendous experience all told. :)

    I know - I gave my mother a quick call on the thing the day it was installed, I felt like some sort of wild animal.


  • #21
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Locked keys in my van yesterday along with mobile and went to my parents house to use their phone (landline). I actually had to stop for a split second before i lifted it, to remember what to do. It was also a strange feeling just standing there talking and to thew person on the other end and being unable to walk around. Horrendous experience all told. :)

    I still have a landline - costs about €5 per month on a broadband package and I can talk all day and night on it, to other landlines, for that cost. Worth it for family member chats. It has also proven to be more reliable than mobile networks.

    I also have a 1970's rotary dial phone, using break loop dialing, and I am amazed that it still works on modern exchanges - I thought they would have all been changed over to DTMF only. I took it to a group of teenagers recently, hooked it up to a phone line and asked them to make a call. Out of a group of twelve, none could do it. Some didn't know to lift the receiver, some didn't know what the dial tone was and none knew how to rotate the dial. Some said that they vaguely remembered their grandparents having a phone like it.

    How times have changed... it made me feel very old(er).


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  • #22
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I know - I gave my mother a quick call on the thing the day it was installed, I felt like some sort of wild animal.

    A wild animal like a badger, by any chance? :)


  • #23
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    A wild animal like a badger, by any chance? :)

    What are you talking about, what is with the badger??


  • #24
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    xabi wrote: »
    Still have one, my Mother is the only one that calls it.

    Same here. I wonder are we brothers?


  • #25
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    jimgoose wrote: »
    What are you talking about, what is with the badger??

    Back off Jimmy...

    Badgers are superior to geese, everyone knows that! :p


  • #26
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Nice and old-school. I see the landline plugs into the modem under the fibre setup, so my one does depend on the electrickery.

    I think the phone might still work in a power cut though. I once powered my router off a battery during a power cut and still had broadband and phone - the telephone network infrastructure was still running off it's own exchange based supply.

    My broadband is supplied over a Fibre to Cabinet line with the final house connection being a copper pair - total fibre to the home probably requires mains power to transform the phone line back to electrical signals. My part of first world twenty first century Ireland hasn't got that option yet, even though we are less than an hour from Dublin and practically in the hard shoulder of the N11.


  • #27
    Tig98
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    Can't bayt a good ole corded landline in a power cut


  • #28
    gogo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    xabi wrote: »
    Still have one, my Mother is the only one that calls it.

    Have one here and my mother was the only one who ever called on it, she passed away two years ago, and it hasn’t rang since, not once... :(

    my son pretended it was his mobile for a while and used to carry it around the house or pretend to his friends he was taking urgent calls on it, ‘yes, yes I will play dinosaurs at twelvety o clock’ ..... other than that, I’ve no idea why I still have it, think it’s practically free with the broadband, must look into it

    Do you remember the phone money box, put 20p in the box when making a call, my mother tried to do the when we see young, but sure we were always robbing it ...


  • #29
    og2k7
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭og2k7


    Used to have it as was required to have UPC/NTL/Virgin setup. Realized recently it wasn't required anymore so got rid of it. Haven't touched it in 4 years

    It might be soon the case with traditional SMS. Since WFH we have even replaced traditional calls with WhatsApp calls as they are better quality in general


  • #30
    Elwood_Blues
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭Elwood_Blues


    Edgware wrote: »
    I run the electricity off the gas and the gas off the electricity. It saves around 200 a year on insulation

    What's your favorite humming noise? Would it be mmm-mmmmm or would it be mmmm-mm? The first one there, now that’s the sound of a fridge humming and the second one, now that’s the sound of a man humming. You never hear a woman humming. I knew a woman once, but she died soon afterwards.


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  • #31
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,576 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Wicklow looks too far south on that map. I couldn’t look at that all day!

    In 4 years we have received on call on the landline - from Sky who provide the landline!

    Thats Arklows location


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