remember those bag phones?
Hardly any reception . What we thought was cool back then @ 1986
I suspect this might be us going forward.
Currently we get almost no calls whatsoever except for 2-step, and businesses returning our origin calls which are few. Unless we’re expecting a return call within a certain time frame, 100% of calls go to an answering machine which we can hear if someone leaves a message, and then we decide if we wish to pick up. From my reading, I don’t think that’s an option with a cell phone — which means we may never pick up the phone except for 2-step. Will either of us remember to check for messages? I dunno.
Throw in the fact that some of us have really good SPAM blockers (they just raised the price) and I can go days without a ‘real’ call.
There is some pesky, delusional woman that keeps calling me and asking what I fixed for dinner. I may have to block her…
Is it that one woman that works with your son? The one with the groupies?
She sounds like real trouble.. 
I’ve gone almost 2 months without getting a real call.
The answering machine is our spam blocker. 
I’m pissed off that we’ll be losing it.
We’ve been using NoMoRobo for both personal & biz lines (landline, cellular, & VoIP) for about 10 years now, and are quite pleased with the results.
That’s the one.
One of the things with a family run business is that over the years a lot of the customers become part of the ‘family’ as well.
We have talked over the past 5 years about how having the store to go back to was one of the motivators to put up with multiple surgeries and hours of therapy on her ankle.
She used to work up front and was the ‘go to’ for all the Spanish speakers that come in. Now she can’t stand for long periods of time and has much more limited mobility but lots of customers stop back and talk to her and the staff brings customers with questions that need interpreting back. Moms come back with their babies, modelers come back with special order requests, and one of the guys comes back and they talk about his (and her) PTSD. It’s going to be a BAD day if/when his Agent Orange exposure gets him finally.
We would ALL be a lot better off with more brick and mortar and less internet just for the humanity if nothing else.
I have RoboKiller through Apple. They just jumped to $79.99/year from $29.99 but I have no plans on changing at this point. Silence is golden!
NoMoRobo has been free on my Verizon Fios landline, and seems to work well.
Dropped the cellphones we had for many years, since the calls we made, during any given month, turned out to be costing about 10 bucks a piece. I have been at home, next to our landline, for many months.
It is so weird that now, living without a cellphone, has been regarded as strange. We all got along with them for most of our lives.
I am not anti-cellphone–I got my first one in 1993, when I needed it for business. It is just that I don’t need one now and resent being forced to buy and pay for a cellphone when I do not need one.
We did the opposite of you; dropped the landline. It was costing about the same as two cell lines, at least when we were in a promo period. Cell phones are creeping up, but still paying only a bit more than when we had the landline, and that gets us two phones.
Just got back from Verizon trading in the oldies but the goodies… No issues.
iPhone 6S 128G 
iPhone 16 256G
iPhone SE 128G iPhone 16 256G
iPhone 7 32G iPhone 16 128G
Bill is going up $4 a month because we went for the 256’s. That’s it… Quite a deal and almost worth the effort.
Figured I would wrap this thread up… 