Sadly the digital-only version isn't the same.
Real circuit-switched lines are wildly expensive if you can even get one. Verizon and AT&T are doing their best to make that impossible.
Real circuit-switched lines are wildly expensive if you can even get one. Verizon and AT&T are doing their best to make that impossible.
Of course it stops working if anything happens to our internet access, but we do have the cell phones well, and the answering machine lives in the cloud (and emails an MP3 if someone leaves a message) so the house number is never truly offline.