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You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What?

Posted by timothy on from the copper-makes-great-bullet-jackets dept.

smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"

3 of 635 comments (clear)

  1. Use the line to pull other lines into your outlets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Use it as a guide line for ethernet.

  2. A few ideas by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Morse code communication system.
    Connect it to your computer for music everywhere.

    Now a real thought. Do you have, or are you going to have kids. At some point you will have to let the communicate, and a cell phone may not be a good option. If this is the case you may wish in just a few years that you had left the phone lines alone.

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    If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
  3. Nerdkits by delta419 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DO NOT remove the wire. In this economy, it's hard enough selling your house as it is... If your nerd level is high enough, I recommend interfacing it all with a nerdkit... alarm clock in every room, irritating beeper that goes off every 15 minutes, lights that flash when you get a new email, maybe even "backup lighting" (preferably red) for when your main power goes down...