[hometoroost]

My wife is still concerned about emergencies and cell outages. The cell outages don't happen often but the land line is nearly 100% and it's hard to think of something that's more reliable.

Most of what we get on the land line is spam (we're do not call too), service providers, and a few relatives now and again.

I could live without it.

[ErnBatavia]

We visited friends over Thanksgiving; they'd just moved to Peoria, Arizona - a booming northern suburb about 30 miles north of Phoenix.

Zero cell service at this time, so their carrier sent them some sort of gizmo which equates to a mini-cell tower; problem is, though, that their setup was difficult and only their gear worked in the house....our cell and tablet were worthless there.

[Mean Daddy]

VoIP is good provided you have power to your cable modem. We have a Verizon network extender in our home. It’s basically a mini-cell tower.

For that you need cable and power, but it works great.