| Landline phones bring many benefits to a user which | | | | especially in the case of an emergency. Additionally |
| the more popular mobiles cannot deliver. It is because | | | | corded landlines do not have batteries and do not |
| of these benefits that landlines have survived in the | | | | switch off at all. |
| ever evolving telecommunication age. Here is some | | | | Landline service providers have come up with a host |
| insight into the reasons which make landlines an | | | | of tariffs, services and packages for their clients. They |
| indispensable object for both home and office | | | | offer discounted rates to specific locations and at |
| environments. | | | | specific hours of the day. Many services offer free |
| A landline ensures that you have one permanent | | | | on-net calls, voice conferencing, online phonebooks, |
| number as long as you live. The introduction of | | | | text messaging, built-in memory for saving numbers |
| 'Universal number systems' have enabled the use of | | | | and speed dialing, call-waiting, call-blocking and a list of |
| separate telecom services from the same number. So | | | | other services. |
| when a company offers packages which your existing | | | | Homes and business can each have a separate type |
| provider does not cater for, you can simply switch | | | | of landline available for their different kinds of usage |
| service and your number remains the same. Multiline | | | | patterns. For instance, large organizations with many |
| phones are another modern variant of landline phone | | | | local and international offices use landline PABX |
| sets. These allow multiple calls to be received at the | | | | systems. These systems enable the firms to have |
| same time. There are other infrastructures like ISDN | | | | one universal number to call to and an unlimited number |
| which allow simultaneous phone and fax services on | | | | of extensions for all the other phone sets available in |
| one telephone number. All these advances in landline | | | | the company. Such versatility cannot be achieved with |
| telephone technologies have enabled these devices to | | | | mobile telephone sets. VoIP (Voice over Internet |
| remain in the field after the great onslaught of mobile | | | | Protocol) is another great technology that uses PABX |
| phones. | | | | systems to enable free international and local calls. |
| Many a time, cell phone service providers encounter | | | | They are ideal for businesses dealing in telemarketing |
| malfunctions in their hardware or one of their boosters | | | | or generally for any international organization with loads |
| or satellite equipment goes down, thus severing your | | | | of international calls daily. |
| contact from the rest of the world. This almost never | | | | The benefits of landline phones detailed above are |
| occurs in a landline, the signals are carried on a metal | | | | numerous and carry weight. They are an integral part |
| wire or fiber-optic medium which are buried | | | | of our homes and offices and will remain so in the |
| underground and thus are more reliable connections, | | | | future that we can perceive. |