Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Plusnet let me renew the contract for my landline for 18 months, but after that they won't be able to renew again. If we have to have a charged mobile in case of emergency power failure, I don't see the point of keeping the landline anyway and may just get a mobile. Signal here is not great, but has improved. Time was you had to walk 50 m from the house to connect. Now you can usually do it somewhere inside, though you might have to wander from room to room to find it.

 

We have more mobile masts than there used to be phone boxes around here, seems they all want their own bit of space to call their own.
Even so the signal often is poor or just cuts out on you.

Just another way modern is not really better, just more of it.

 

Come on, can't fault Virgin providing 10x faster broadband than previously available to us - some modern connectivity there.

 

Its only 10x faster if you pay them stupid money, for us mere mortals its probably slowed down so you up grade.

I dont use Virgin mobile.

 

No, it's a lot cheaper per/mth than what I was paying to Sky!

 

I worked as a Civil Serpent in a call centre, I was amazed when I could access every call in full that the current caller had made in the past 21 years
Also just by voice recognition who the caller was in real life

Crazy

 

Interesting reading: UK transition from analogue to digital landlines

 

I'm thinking of getting rid of the landline, just read they suggest you keep mobile for backup, surely why have the landline then.

 

This is the sort of thing I'm against ... and especially as most people don't know it can be done.

 

Does that mean we get a discount.

 

Dream on, @pete. My landline used to be the most expensive part of my BB package. Now it is tacked on for free, but the cost of the internet element has shot up to cover the gap. Cunning devils.