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Landline phone for 90 year old parents…
Posted on 3/3/23 at 10:14 am
Posted on 3/3/23 at 10:14 am
Hey guys my parents just can’t get the hang of their cell phones and I need their landline back. Anyone else have experience going back to a landline? Anything cheaper for a landline than traditional AT&T?
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Posted on 3/3/23 at 10:42 am to lsubruce
ATT won't reactivate phone lines or dsl that have copper lines.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:29 pm to lsubruce
If they have internet, just set up a VOIP.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 5:47 pm to lsubruce
You can still buy "dumb" cell phones. Are those not an option?
Posted on 3/3/23 at 7:14 pm to lsubruce
Vonage followed by ooma. Vonage is higher quality but a bit more expensive at $10/mo.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:38 pm to notsince98
Thanks. Already researching Ooma. Thanks again.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 11:59 pm to lsubruce
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Hey guys my parents just can’t get the hang of their cell phones and I need their landline back. Anyone else have experience going back to a landline? Anything cheaper for a landline than traditional AT&T?
I few years ago my wife's grandfather who was in a nursing home got to where he couldn't manage his cell phone anymore due to early stages of dementia. The nursing home he was in was very new and had no phone hardwired run as all the residents used cell phones.
My MIL (I am pretty sure it was from AT&T) got a "black box" powered by a wall wart that worked like a cell phone and you could connect ANY normal phone to. IIRC they were able to keep his same number and keep it on their plan which his cell hone was on. To make it easy for him I bought a phone for "older" people that had big number buttons and even had clear plastic covers that you could put individual's pictures under for the speed dial. He wasn't that bad so I just printed everyone's names and put them on the buttons. I didn't deal with the cell phone company but set it all up and it was easy. The black box just had a wall wart to power it and you just connected the phone with the same cord you would connect it to a wall jack with.
ETA I meant to mention they have cell phone to phone jack adaptors we could have used but the black box solution was so much simpler since you didn't need to deal with a cell phone at all.
This post was edited on 3/4/23 at 12:03 am
Posted on 3/5/23 at 5:29 pm to Obtuse1
Same for my Uncle in assisted living, and I assume for anyone who wants a landline. My uncle did have a landline, and was switched over to the black box. The Black Box is "ATT Wireless Home Phone." The customer will plug their home phone into the new device, and for them it behaves like their old copper wire phone. But its using cellular to operate. SO - when uncle, who lives near the BTR General on Bluebonnet needs to use his 'landline' during rush hour can't get a call through, he rages.
Posted on 3/5/23 at 7:42 pm to robchand58
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The customer will plug their home phone into the new device, and for them it behaves like their old copper wire phone.
I forgot to highlight it has a dial tone as they expect and they can either use speed dial if the home phone is equipped with it and also dial straight out just like on a landline. No need to hit an extra button/icon just like in the "good ole days". This worked well for my wife's GF until he got so bad they had to take mirrors and anything that acted like a mirror (TV and glass over pictures in frames) because he perceived it as someone that was trying to kill him. Dementia is HORRIBLE but he did recognize my wife and me until the day he died, that day if it had ever come would have gutted my wife and me.
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