The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Si_Clist

Ref my post a while back about the singularly stupid switching-off of the existing landline phone system in 2025, this is worth a read by anybody daft enough to think that "they" won't leave people in a pickle ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59564480

MrsCD

The only way we could check the northern power grid map the other weekend when our power was off was to change the settings on my mobile to 2g and even then it was very patchy. 
TPTB obviously live in towns or cities where they are the priority when these things happen so the rest of us can....well,  I'm too much of a lady to say what I really think.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Just read the article Si_Clist. Frightening.

houseinafield

Thanks for the article Si_Clist. Another thing to add to my list of the things 'they' are doing to undermine life as we know it! Goverment, corporations etc really don't care much for those who live outside of cities/large towns and if you're over 60 they don't care much for those either. It's very concerning. 

weenancyinAmerica

I recently babysat my sister's dog in her house - where she no longer has a landline. And I didn't have a cellphone. I was entirely cut off. If there had been an emergency, I would have had no way to call for help. If they are doing away with land-lines, make sure anyone staying at your house has a working cellphone for emergencies. And keep several backup ways to keep your cell-phone charged.

Si_Clist

houseinafield said:

... corporations etc really don't care much for those who live outside of cities/large towns ...

All big firms care about nowadays is their profits.   I wonder how much better off Openreach will be when they don't have all the telephone poles and wires and the battery banks in the exchanges to maintain and replace.

Eeeeee, when I were a lad the GPO ran the phones, the engineers drove khaki-coloured Morris Minor vans, and we had proper black telephones with proper dials and big heavy handsets that always seemed to smell the same.  And so on ...   

MrsCD

When I was a lass we had the phone box up the road along from the pub and you had buttons A and B. We didn't have a phone in the house until I started work.

Nargleblast

When I were a lass - when walking down a street, we never had the urge to jump into every telephone box and ring our friends to find out what they'd had for dinner.

Florenceem

Nearest phone box when I was a child - was down the road and onto another road and cross a road - a prefab caught fire - burnt to the ground before the firemen arrived - I don't think much chance of dousing it if they had arrived earlier though.

Serendipitious

Nargleblast said:

When I were a lass - when walking down a street, we never had the urge to jump into every telephone box and ring our friends to find out what they'd had for dinner.

And we'd have rolled around laughing if we'd been sent a photo of it through the post...