Cordless phones go dead if the power goes out. We keep an old hard wired phone around in the event of power outages.
But outages happen so rarely, hard to justify the service for that. Last time I can remember our power being out for more than an hour or two was during the '05 hurricane season.
Main reason I like the land line is because of call clarity. That has become less of an issue as the cell phones and service have improved.
And I suspect my kids are typical. They rarely talk on the phone. They text. Call clarity means little or nothing to them.
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