Staying Landline Connected, Part III

This is the final installment of my three-part series on the reasons it is important to keep your landline phone service. If you haven't had a chance to yet read parts one or two of this series, you can do so by clicking here or here.

This week I'll be focusing on reasons three and four: superior call quality and alarm monitoring services.

Reason Three: Superior Call Quality Reason three for keeping your landline phone is to retain superior call quality. Despite the cost-saving associated with digital phone and wireless services, landline phone service still provides superior voice quality. This is due to digital channels relaying calls through the Internet, utilizing user datagram protocol (UDP) and wireless phones using line-of-site transmission through cellular towers. Landlines, on the other hand, have a dedicated and reliable line for verbal conversations. In addition, landlines do not face the same issues such as echo or dropped calls like many digital and wireless systems.

Reason Four: Alarm Monitoring Services Reason four for keeping your landline phone is for alarm monitoring services. As mentioned above, digital phones require continuous power. Without power, digital phones cannot send security system signals to monitoring centers, leaving homes and businesses unprotected. In addition, software changes and updates service providers send to individual alarm systems may not be transmitted through digital phone services during power outages, rendering alarm systems useless.

While digital and wireless services may be the wave of the future, here at HTC, we strongly encourage users, as well as those who have switched to digital or wireless exclusive phone services, to stay or return to traditional landline service for safety, connectivity and ease of use. Landline phones are a time-tested, reliable service that is essential to any home or business owner.

I hope that this series has helped to shed some light on the importance of landlines, and if you were thinking of ditching your landline, hopefully now you'll reconsider.

Until next time, Happy Holidays from all of us here at HTC.

Best,

Tom