Who doesn't need an electric meter lamp

What I read was that in the next 5 to 10 years landlines will be gone. If you look at a phone book from years ago and today's phone books it shows not very many landlines are still used. With it costing so much to keep up the lines I can see them shutting them off. Years ago a at&t phone employee told me pay phone was going to be obsolete I didn't believe him but guess what how many pay phone do you see today. :twocents

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

As my dad would say I needed it like a hog needed a side saddle. Yet I wanted it and the darn thing came home with me. I had one in my early 20's that got away from me. What Electrician doesn't need to know how many kilowatts that lightbulb is using. Plus with these new smart meters this is a bygone piece of history. Attachment 408917Attachment 408917

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My dad would have said "You need that like a hole in the head!"

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

Sure is..I live rural and they read it from the road somehow. I don’t know how accurate that can be or however they read it. :banghead

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My area (West Central FL still has 'em visually read)

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Originally Posted by scrat

What I read was that in the next 5 to 10 years landlines will be gone. If you look at a phone book from years ago and today's phone books it shows not very many landlines are still used. With it costing so much to keep up the lines I can see them shutting them off. Years ago a at&t phone employee told me pay phone was going to be obsolete I didn't believe him but guess what how many pay phone do you see today. :twocents

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Look at all the phone exchange builds that are gone. You used to see them all over the place. Those Ma Bell buildings all looked the same. Passed one a couple of weeks ago out in the country being used for something else