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[Amos Hames 2]

With everything seemed to be going digital. Does anyone still use a landline telephone. And who remembers British Telecom phone cards. It's all getting a bit advanced these days. A long way of the old dial phones

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Stopped using my landline years ago and yes I remember the phonecards well not only in the UK but remember buying equivalents abroad to ring home

 

[maltrab]

Been using VOIP (Digital landline) for about 20 years, so much cheaper on calls, and VOIP to VOIP calls are free with no time restriction.

Years ago I collected phonecards, several turned out to be money makers a few years later, mainly the Mercury cards

 

[theatrically_inclined]

With everything seemed to be going digital. Does anyone still use a landline telephone. And who remembers British Telecom phone cards. It's all getting a bit advanced these days. A long way of the old dial phones

Terry and I are not 'typical' folk in this respect as we both worked in telecoms, so we're more likely to have been exposed to the technology. I remember phonecards, but never need one as, being a BT engineer (1980s - 2000s) I could pop in any phone exchange or many other BT premises to phone free, 24 hours a day if needed - on 'official' business. I do remember being given a standard green phone card by work on one occasion - I think I remember the idea was to use it if we wanted to make a call from a kiosk, therefore being an ad-hoc way of testing a card-phone. When I moved to Birmingham, nearly 20 years ago (don't worry, I've moved again) nearly no one knew my 'new' number and everyone was already habitually using mobiles. Since moving last year I have no landline.

 

[mashibinbin]

I did a brief spell working for Bt when they introduced the idea a family chargecard that would allow your little darlings to be able to call home anytime and the parents would be billed in due course at a reduced rate. It was cheap and popular so of course it was scrapped!