My cell phone works very good on call but my landline phone rings the called number but, then dead ends. I can't figure why. Anyone else have the problem and a solution? Help. Ed
Cell vs Land line issue
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Call the phone company. Nobody can do anything about it on this forum.
Is the landline phone a cordless model? If so, battery or signal could be weak.
Have you considered ditching the landline and getting Panasonic Link2Cell phones? They work very good and as long as you leave your BT on, you never have to fiddle with anything when you leave the house and get back home, they work great. You can pair two separate cellphones to the Panasonic cordless phones if you have a significant other.
My land line is part of a package deal with Comcast, and I like a land line in general.
I did a hard boot with my router, and all seems good now. Ed
I did a hard boot with my router, and all seems good now. Ed
What is a landline?
That’s not a landline, that‘s VOIP. Resetting the modem fixing it is a dead giveaway. Spectrum jacked up the VOIP home phone price high enough to make a cell phone cheaper…
$6 a month with Ooma. Unlimited calling to 49 states. I'm unsure of Hawaii.
Paired with prepaid cell phones, total annual phone bill for two is around $300.
That's NOT a landline, it's VOIP the reason why voip has failed gaining wider acceptance is for problems just like you describe.
I had the same problem with a VOIP service (Ooma). After many calls with their tech. support and no solution I gave up on it. Hopefully you have a better outcome.
LTE cellular is VIOP
My idiot old supervisor when I worked in tv news would say call me on the land line when he wanted a cell phone to cell phone call. In fact our tv station had zero hard wired land lines anywhere. It was all internet based in a different city thru our network signal provider network team.
For folks that dont know.. VOIP means voice over internet protocol. Its phone like in your house but does not connect to any wires at all. The services can be iffy and failure prone.
For folks that dont know.. VOIP means voice over internet protocol. Its phone like in your house but does not connect to any wires at all. The services can be iffy and failure prone.
So it just blows IP packets through the air across the world to the other person?
It is just digital data that goes over the internet which is connected with wires. I find it to be very reliable and if there is problems it is usually a poor LAN setup within a business or home. Most "landlines" are really digital VOIP lines now. I would guess at some point almost all "landline" phone audio is digitized now.
busting unions by abandoning 'land lines' ("It costs too much to employ people, use mo`chenes.") Ma Bell would not allow some areas hit w/Sandy (hursca`n) to re-land line. They (same co) charge BOTH partys for a cell call, no?
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That's a device that some us old farts still use. I ditched my landline a few years back (after switching to VOIP). Only use cell phones now.
I wonder how many people call that old number looking for me or my wife?
When we have storms internet goes away as does voip based phones. The old bell system hard wired phones had battery systems that powered them.. so an old land based line was beyond reliable .. your power went out but you still had perfect phone service.
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