<div dir="ltr">Again planning for the older generation not the current or next, it's like saying hey lets stop building more advance cars with parking assist, GPS, reverse parking sensors, fancy alarms because the older generation don't have the technical skills for them. <div>
<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Regards, <font color="#073763"><b><br>Peter Betyounan</b></font><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Noel Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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So, your landlines die after an hour of power outage now? find that hard to believe... sniff sniff, yes, troll day appears to have come early this week..<br>
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To be fair, many people with cordless phones (and there are lots) would start having issues pretty quickly into a power outage. Sure, a corded phone may still work, but many people don't have them.
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thats there problem, you can buy cheap wired sets for 10 bucks from places like Sams warehouse<div class="im"><br>
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and as for portable, how many old folk (70/80+) run around living on their mobiles. SFA thats how many. <br>
just because the average person and their inner circles here live on the things, dont assume the rest of the population does as well.<br>
and the elderly are the MOST and highest "at risk" from this change.
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My 88yo grandmother has a mobile phone that she answers more regularly than she answers her landline (which, FYI, has a cordless phone connected to it). I'd suggest assumptions are bad no matter who's argument they're supporting. :)
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Maybe so, my dad who's approaching 80 also has one,mum does not, and does not want one either, but none of his, or mum's friends do have one. I would expect people related to technical people may, but don't go assuming they all do, if I went up to the RSL on a packet out Saturday arvo and held a vote I'd be betting maybe only 10/20 might have one.<br>
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