Crappy Phone Service

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I have a land line that is with a company called Windstream. Most of the time there is no problem but recently, I've had no service at all. The portable phones will say, "Line in Use" or, "No Line." I'll go to the land line and either there is nothing but static or nothing at all. Really? And the weather is not a problem. So I used the cell phone that my daughter gave me for emergencies (which has a Nebraska phone number) to try and call them. Of course they don't recognize that phone number. And with the outages happening mostly on the weekends.....well good luck trying to hit operator for assistance. I finally got through to them yesterday and told them #1, I want a credit on my account and #2 that since I had been deathly ill, I wouldn't have been able to call for an ambulance for help. 8 hours later I get a phone call that actually comes through from a tech that had looked into the problem. He still didn't know what was wrong but gave me his personal cell number so that if it happened again, I could call him directly and he'd be right out to investigate. Well that's just ducky-poo but if the phone isn't working, do I use the cell phone with the Nebraska number on it or do I go to a neighbor's house to make the call. I'm just gonna buy one of those alarm, neck thingies. Then I can just press the button and say, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" as I lay in my bathtub or I'm out in the pasture somewhere. Alexander Graham Bell would not be proud.