A little News or No Social Media for Who?

[Beth Gallagher]

I have never waded into the Reddit pool, and that's just a matter of fact, not pride.

It seems that most google queries now have some links back to Reddit. There are a lot of interesting topics there but there's also a lot of sewage.

 

[Don Alaska]

We still have a landline, too. It's part of Comcast bundled services so when it rings, the caller ID information comes up on the TV screen. We seldom answer that line unless we are expecting a call.

My sister is very rural in farm country; houses are really far apart so I guess the phone company wasn't willing to keep up maintenance on lines to support a handful of customers, many of them on dirt backroads. They were very unhappy about it but that's the way it goes sometimes.

There is something called stationary cell service here for some of those people. I think it is a cell phone that resembles a landline phone and cannot be carried beyond a radius from the base station. Most of the state has no cell coverage at all and those few people who are permanent residents there must rely on Star link or some other satellite service.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

There is something called stationary cell service here for some of those people. I think it is a cell phone that resembles a landline phone and cannot be carried beyond a radius from the base station. Most of the state has no cell coverage at all and those few people who are permanent residents there must rely on Star link or some other satellite service.

My sister's is a regular Verizon cellphone, which doesn't always have the best signal. I don't believe south Georgia has nearly the "rural isolation" of Alaska!! I remember back in 2012 or so, when we'd visit my sister's place in our RV we couldn't get cell reception unless we walked around in her yard out close to the highway. At least they have added more cell towers now.