You are not obligated to have a landline. The goverment requires phone service to have landline capability. That means that it must have 99.999% uptime and must supply its own power in the case of a power outage. I believe that it must maintain power for 24 hour. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan" <drake at lemongecko.myip.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] qwest > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:37:40PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > > and it's a law that you have to landline 911 service in a > > residential home, > > Hmmm, I've never heard of this law. What about the Amish (I'm from rural > Wisconsin)? I say, if the government is keen on me having a landline for > 911 service, they can pay for it themselves... :) > > I too am eager to ditch my land line and just use a cellphone, > but it's a tad bit expensive right now. But I feel your pain with respect > to Qwest -- although I've had the good fortune to experience less of it -- > and am no fan of those doofuses. > > <grammar nazi> > And what's up with misspelling words to make a "cool" name for your > company? Dammit, it's "quest". And the word "excel" starts with an 'e', not > an 'x'. "Qwest", "Xcel"...it's like being on an IRC channel with a bunch of > k1dd13s. > </grammar nazi> > > Dan > > > -- > lemon | Dan Drake > + gecko | drake at lemongecko.org > ----- | http://lemongecko.org/drake > ?! | > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >