Jessica Sabin, a national service director at Axess Family Services, recalls her grandma making frequent calls on her landline to stay in contact with her sister, as she wasn’t comfortable using her cell phone.
At Axess, Sabin oversees AmeriCorps Seniors, a volunteer program helping older adults serve the Portage County community and connect with others. Understanding how her grandmother’s landline...
Read moreAT&T and others have not been removing landlines. They have been disconnecting them but not physically removing the wires. They turn their disconnected wires into your problem to actually remove and dispose of them. The problem is not just limited to the black wire from the pole to your home. It includes the big ugly cables one sees stretching forever along streets and highways. No longer used. If copper theft is a big problem, then utilities should be required to remove them and reclaim the value. But they just leave the stuff in place for years. If not forever.
In Copley, we already went through this with Frontier. In doing so I learned something that may be of help to people concerned about giving up their land line because the phone number is tied to so many different accounts they have or who don’t want to deal with AT&T’s new equipment. A land line number is portable, just like a mobile phone number. That means it can be moved to a different carrier, such as a mobile phone carrier. In my case, I had a second line available on my mobile phone so I moved the land line to it and it is cheaper than the land line was. I know this does not help people who do not use mobile phones for whatever reason and I feel for them.