Well, I finally did it...
0After keeping the same landline phone number alive for 38 plus years (ever since we moved into this house, before phone number porting was a thing), we finally decided to relinquish it. It started out as a regular local Telecom landline, then about 14 years ago it got converted to a VoIP using an Ooma set up from woot!. That set up saved me a tremendous amount of money over the years, and when we moved my parents down here we set them up with an Ooma from the get-go. We now rely on our two cell phones, and I realized that I wasn’t even checking the answering machine for the VoIP… ever…
In retrospect, it would have made sense to port one of our phones from our old number but at the time we got our first cell phones unlimited calling was not available (except nights and weekends on some plans). Plus it was convenient when calling other family members to be able to use more than one handset at a time.
So, it’s the end of an era for me. Anyone else out there still have a landline? Still using an Ooma (from woot or meh or elsewhere)?
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I would still have my landline if the underground copper wiring hadn’t gotten fried when there was a water main break in the area. Since Verizon wouldn’t repair it, I then paid to keep the number for a few years and had calls transferred to my cell phone. Since my new phone has a dual SIM card, I ported the number to my cell, so now I see two sets of bars at the top and can get calls from 2 different numbers. I had the landline number for 30 years and wasn’t ready to give it up.