"But why wouldn't he just use the regular land line?"
However, data caps on land lines are *absolutely* a problem in my book.
He needs a land line, and right now his apartment seems like a bad idea.
Today, she might not even have had a land line.
"Get the land lines connected and I'll take care of the computer system."
I don't even have a land line in my apartment.
Listen, Harry, can you call me right back from a land line?
"And since I'm never here to return calls on the land line," he said, "people have learned not to use that number."
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the land line that dropped me.
But he had enough presence of mind to give the signal to break the American land line.