-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 26-Aug-2018 14:50 <=-   
      
    NB>> Sounds like a good place to stay, then...   
      
    MK> Better than most methinks.   
      
   Especially for you...  :)  Have you seen any evidence of the quails   
   lately....?   
      
    NB>> I do have a very basic cell phone   
      
    MK> I still have a landline but have been tempted by basic cell service in   
    MK> the past.  So far there really hasn't been a need but I do see the   
    MK> advantage of them.  However I don't like the teeny-tiny displays that   
    MK> I cannot read without coke bottle type glasses.  Also my fingers are   
    MK> too fat for the itsy-bitsy keypad dealies.  My regular phone is much   
    MK> more of what I require of a phone.    
      
   We still have our landline... and it still is my primary phone... the   
   cell is for when I'm not home and wish to have communication away from   
   home... I do ok with the small display and the little keys, though...   
      
    NB>> anything else other than talk and text   
      
    MK> Some of the people here watch movies on their so-called smartphones.    
      
   Yup... and my son uses his as a portable computer, which just happens to   
   have phone service as part of it....   
      
    MK> Near as I can tell the small machine I turned into their access point   
    MK> to the outside world is where all the smart comes from.  Without it   
    MK> they just have phones. The service from the usual providers is   
    MK> extremely lousy and far too expensive although I do understand why.    
    MK> Not enough customers out this way to make it commercially viable.  Not   
    MK> being in the business and knowing the basics is where I come in.  Also   
    MK> I am very curious which helps.    
      
   Give you a challenge, and you're off and running...  ;)   
      
    MK> However if and when something breaks   
    MK> down it is unlikely to get replaced as far as the wireless end of   
    MK> things goes.  I personally don't have much use for it and nobody here   
    MK> is interested in getting anything local working on it so I really   
    MK> don't have any incentive.  Most of what is out there in cyberspace is   
    MK> worthless to me and repeating it on wireless is pointless and not   
    MK> worth the additional costs.    
      
   If your neighbors kicked in for the costs to fix things to keep their   
   less expensive service going, you'd be willing to work on things,   
   though...?    
      
   ttyl          neb   
      
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