Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

["Monique Semp" <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

A thought -- although not likely a good fit in terms of why you're referring 
to the landline, I think that the term may be morphing into an "emergency 
phone" sort of thing.

And it's timely now, with all the storms and power outages in the US at the 
moment, to recall that emergency agencies have been trying (without much 
success it seems) to convince people that it's important to keep an old 
fashioned phone around the house and pay for the most basic plan -- some 
phone companies are even calling it a 911-line, I think.  And not only is it 
important that it be a "landline", but that it not be an 
all-in-one-answering-machine-system that doesn't work if the power goes out 
for an extended period.  So the old phones that did one thing only -- make 
and receive calls without any power beyond what was provided through the 
phone line itself -- are what they're talking about.

As I noted, it's unlikely that you really want to refer to the landline as 
an emergency life phone, but maybe that concept will stir the group 
imagination and a great new term will emerge :-).

-Monique

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