When you can’t answer the call of duty

The phasing out of landlines is creating an emergency contact headache

@bazzacollins What races through your mind when the phone rings at 3am in the morning? Well, forget that. What’s keeping me awake at night is what’s happening when the phone’s not ringing. I’ve reached that age where I have worries at both ends of the spectrum. I’ve got elderly parents, including a dad with his own parking space at the local A&E. And I’ve got a teenage daughter who’s out clubbing until the early hours of the morning. If either of them is in a tight spot at 3am, I want to know about it. Until about a year ago, they would have called the landline in an emergency. In fact, for the final few years of existence, the landline became known as the “nan phone”, because the only (genuine) calls we ever…

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