Saturday, March 22, 2025

Why I unplugged my home landline phone


Every form of electronic communications has been ruined by marketers and scammers.
People today can’t find peace from frequent phone calls, texts and emails from businesses and individuals trying to sell you something or worse, scam you. They interrupt your day, waste your time and annoy you.
This week, I unplugged my home landline phone because of non-stop spam calls.
I looked into blocking the callers from my service, Verizon, but the callers use too many different numbers, probably through spoofing.
Unfortunately the callers are still leaving hang-up voicemails on my service. The voicemails last a couple of seconds before the disconnect. And I have to manually delete them.
My wireless service, AT&T, and my Apple iPhone do a better job of blocking or silencing suspicious unknown callers. But I still get quite a few spam or phishing texts though.
And don’t get me started about email. My two personal email accounts have been clogged with junk email. I have to devote a lot of time to clearing them out occasionally.

Photo: AT&T-branded two-line corded speakerphone. (VTech)

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