For the past several days, we have had no land-line telephone.
We have DSL (digital subscriber line) and the phone plugs into the back of the DSL modem. It doesn't seem possible (it is, they come in on different wire pairs) but we have had uninterrupted internet service, just no phone.
CenturyLink says there's an area wide outage, and update texts on my cell phone keep promising the trouble will be corrected soon. So far, their predictions have been wrong.
It is always aggravating when something you're paying for doesn't work, but honestly I haven't missed the phone at all. Lack of the phone has actually been pleasant.
No one we really want to talk to ever calls our land line. The calls we receive are from political fund raisers, various (usually bogus) police organizations, folks trying to sell extended warranty on our truck or consolidate our credit cards. Then there are the ones saying they have detected a problem on our Apple computer (never had one) and lately, at least one a day that wants to buy our house.
I have no idea whether they'll get the phone back on any time soon, but, the more I think about it, the less I care.
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