2AM Emergency!!!

Ken N Tx

Ken N Tx

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With cell phones in today's world,would you be able to contact your children if you had a 2AM emergency??

No more princess phone s by the bedside to ring non stop off the hook!!
 

Ken N Tx said:
With cell phones in today's world,would you be able to contact your children if you had a 2AM emergency??

No more princess phone s by the bedside to ring non stop off the hook!!
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I'm not following your question. A cell phone works just like any other phone from your residence. If you happen to be in an area where there is no cell phone service, then the same problem would exist with a land line.
 

Camper6 said:
I'm not following your question. A cell phone works just like any other phone from your residence. If you happen to be in an area where there is no cell phone service, then the same problem would exist with a land line.
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The jest is that folks are more likely to sleep through a cell phone ringing than the older land line phone sitting on the night stand that might be louder and don't stop ringing on their on.
 
dpwspringer said:
The jest is that folks are more likely to sleep through a cell phone ringing than the older land line phone sitting on the night stand that might be louder and don't stop ringing on their on.
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Camper6 said:
I'm not following your question. A cell phone works just like any other phone from your residence. If you happen to be in an area where there is no cell phone service, then the same problem would exist with a land line.
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Alot place their phones on chargers or they are in another room. Some have low volume ringtones or are on vibrate!! Some ring only a certain number of times before going to voicemail!!
 
camper6 wrote" If you happen to be in an area where there is no cell phone service, then the same problem would exist with a land line." not true. land line is different from cell phones.
in essence a cell phone is actually radio telephone whereas landline is hard wired. in a major failure cell phone service might stop due to no power but landline is powered by the phone company and should still work....unless there is something different in canada i am not aware of!
 
Deucemoi said:
camper6 wrote" If you happen to be in an area where there is no cell phone service, then the same problem would exist with a land line." not true. land line is different from cell phones.
in essence a cell phone is actually radio telephone whereas landline is hard wired. in a major failure cell phone service might stop due to no power but landline is powered by the phone company and should still work....unless there is something different in canada i am not aware of!
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I'm talking about being in a wilderness area. It's possible you could communicate with a cell phone but unlikely that there's a land line in your tent.

As far as sleeping through the rings. I keep my phone in my pocket and it vibrates as well as rings and my ringtone is a song that plays for a long time.
 
A simple straight forward hypothetical question. Land line vs. cell phone for emergency contact at 2 a/m.
The reasons listed post #5 explain why landline would be the better option.

Of course your children would have to have the landline since you would be contacting them. Therein lies the problem. Many younger people opt for cell phone use only.
 
I would be able to reach people, but they aren't able to reach me - even when I had a landline, the phone in the bedroom had the ringer turned off.
Which makes it possible that they won't answer when I call...
 
Camper6 said:
I'm talking about being in a wilderness area. It's possible you could communicate with a cell phone but unlikely that there's a land line in your tent.

As far as sleeping through the rings. I keep my phone in my pocket and it vibrates as well as rings and my ringtone is a song that plays for a long time.
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If they are in a wilderness area they might not have cell phone service either. And even if they did, how quickly could they respond in an emergency? When I was backpacking in wilderness areas I was on my own for days at a time and might pick up cell phone signal from high ground if I was near a town. Maybe coverage is better now but I think that is satellite phone country if you want a reliable connection and a helicopter pilot on call if you want to make a quick exit.
 
Looks like it's getting over-"thunk
Depends on whether or not the person who's trying to be reached,keeps their phone near their bed,keeps the ringer turned up and doesn't sleep like the dead like my son.
Cell phones don't have any magical powers.
I think if you're in the wilderness, you're probably on your own...
BTW,even with a landline, I always kept the ringer off in the bedroom
 
Knight said:
A simple straight forward hypothetical question. Land line vs. cell phone for emergency contact at 2 a/m.
The reasons listed post #5 explain why landline would be the better option.

Of course your children would have to have the landline since you would be contacting them. Therein lies the problem. Many younger people opt for cell phone use only.
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Well I don't agree. If you wanted to go cuckoo about it you could easily hook up your cell phone to a speaker. But now how often do you expect to be woken up at 2 a.m. for an emergency.
 
Giantsfan1954 said:
Looks like it's getting over-"thunk
Depends on whether or not the person who's trying to be reached,keeps their phone near their bed,keeps the ringer turned up and doesn't sleep like the dead like my son.
Cell phones don't have any magical powers.
I think if you're in the wilderness, you're probably on your own...
BTW,even with a landline, I always kept the ringer off in the bedroom
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In the wilderness if you have a cell phone you have the option of a compass and a GPS unit. You also have the option of an emergency feature which is satellite driven. They can find you easily.
 
Camper6 said:
Well I don't agree. If you wanted to go cuckoo about it you could easily hook up your cell phone to a speaker. But now how often do you expect to be woken up at 2 a.m. for an emergency.
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As I posted the hypothetical was simple.

You missed the point. Contacting your children not them contacting you.

The landline wouldn't need your modification and you aren't the person to be contacted.
 
camper6" I'm talking about being in a wilderness area". oh gee sorry I wasn't aware there was any particular place mentioned. So you think you can notify anyone by cell phone at 2am while you are being attacked by a grizzly bear in the wilderness. good luck.
And since we are on alternate spaces being in a rubber dinghy at sea after your sailboat sank and trying to call your children at 2am, i dont think so, or how about in a lunar lander on the moon...

camper6 "In the wilderness if you have a cell phone you have the option of a compass and a GPS unit. You also have the option of an emergency feature which is satellite driven."
my cell phone does not have a compass or gps and has nothing to do with a satellite.

I dunno where you get your info!
 
Deucemoi said:
camper6" I'm talking about being in a wilderness area". oh gee sorry I wasn't aware there was any particular place mentioned. So you think you can notify anyone by cell phone at 2am while you are being attacked by a grizzly bear in the wilderness. good luck.
And since we are on alternate spaces being in a rubber dinghy at sea after your sailboat sank and trying to call your children at 2am, i dont think so, or how about in a lunar lander on the moon...

camper6 "In the wilderness if you have a cell phone you have the option of a compass and a GPS unit. You also have the option of an emergency feature which is satellite driven."
my cell phone does not have a compass or gps and has nothing to do with a satellite.

I dunno where you get your info!
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I dunno where you get your info for a landline. In none of those scenarios mentioned would you have a chance with your land line sitting on your bedroom table. With a cell phone you have a chance. On emergency mode with a cell phone you can be tracked by satellite.

Your cell phone has lots of stuff on it if you would read the instructions and activate them and learn how to install free apps.

I'm somewhat of a B.S.' er myself but continue with your story.
 
camper6... duh... my cell phone is a pre pay tracfone and does not have anything to activate, no apps to download and absolutely has nothing to do with satellites.. not all cell phones are the 'smart phones' you are thinking of which use google's android system!
 
Deucemoi said:
camper6... duh... my cell phone is a pre pay tracfone and does not have anything to activate, no apps to download and absolutely has nothing to do with satellites.. not all cell phones are the 'smart phones' you are thinking of which use google's android system!
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I know that. We were talking about a land line ring as compared to a cell phone ring in an emergency. The suggestion was that a landline next to your bed has an advantage over a cell phone. Well I was trying to point out without much success that you can put your cell phone on the nightstand next to your bed and it can ring and wake you up just the same as a land line and it has other advantages not built in to a land line. Capice?

Sheesh ? Someone wake you up last night at 2 a.m.?

The opening post:
With cell phones in today's world,would you be able to contact your children if you had a 2AM emergency??

No more princess phone s by the bedside to ring non stop off the hook!!


Which means that if you phone someone and if they have a landline you can let the phone you are calling keep ringing until you hang up.

Well I can set my cell phone to ring for 3 minutes and even longer depending on the ringtone I have.

I would suggest that if I don't answer within a reasonable time that the caller would hang up and try again.
 
I use my cell phone as an alarm clock and it always wakes me up. I have the alarm set on a very annoying ring.

I've been known to sleep through my land line ringing, by incorporating the ringing phone into a dream.

My son is presently working in Texas, and if I had an emergency it wouldn't make much difference whether I could reach him or not since he couldn't get here in time to be of any practical help. In case of an emergency, I'd call 911 and/or one of my neighbors.
 
Ken N Tx said:
With cell phones in today's world,would you be able to contact your children if you had a 2AM emergency??

No more princess phone s by the bedside to ring non stop off the hook!!
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I don't keep either a landline phone or cellular in the bedroom at all, but:

If there was a medical emergency at 2 am I would be calling 911 immediately. I would leave a text or voicemail for my kids, telling them to call as soon as they can.
 
Deucemoi said:
camper6... duh... my cell phone is a pre pay tracfone and does not have anything to activate, no apps to download and absolutely has nothing to do with satellites.. not all cell phones are the 'smart phones' you are thinking of which use google's android system!
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How to Track a Tracfone | eHow

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The locations of cellular towers catching the GPS signal map out your phone's location. Tracking your TracFone mobile device does not require fancy or expensive ... TracFone emits global positioning signals to cellular towers and satellites.

How to track a landline. Open the phone book if the number is listed.
 

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