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bokdrol

bokdrol

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Good evening all
I want to have a landline installed in my Mom's room at the frailcare home. She has Alzheimer's and to date she has misplaced 5 mobile phones. She also no longer can use them, even the simplest ones. I am living overseas so no longer can visit her regularly. Would dearly like to phone her from time to time(even though the conversations are like something out of Alice in Wonderland):crylaugh:

I need the simplest and cheapest package, just a landline with an old style phone that when you lift the receiver, you are connected. Lockable, so the nurses cannot phone their boyfriends. For incoming calls only. And receiver to be attached to the telephone body so she cannot wander off with it.
I checked the telecom website. So many products...very confusing.
Can anyone advise please?
Thanks in advance
 
What you need is to call Telkom and apply for a landline or do it online, strictly a voice line, they will try to sell you their calling plans and everything, kindly decline these as the phone wont be used for outgoing calls. I don't know if Telkom's packages include a phone, usually the customer supplies their own phone that a technician will plug-in after installation. You can ask Telkom if they supply those but I bet it won't be the old style phone that you looking for. After the phone is installed you need to call Telkom and ask them to put a block on outgoing calls, that's about it.

You can also apply for what is called a "fixed line look alike", it is the same as a landline but its not dependent on copper but rather uses a wireless network, when copper thieves strike you can still use the phone. The rental is the same as the landline so no extra costs.

Here https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/shop/home/plan/plan-variation-landline/ it's the landline or FLLA for R199 that you are looking for.
 
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bokdrol said:
Good evening all
I want to have a landline installed in my Mom's room at the frailcare home. She has Alzheimer's and to date she has misplaced 5 mobile phones. She also no longer can use them, even the simplest ones. I am living overseas so no longer can visit her regularly. Would dearly like to phone her from time to time(even though the conversations are like something out of Alice in Wonderland):crylaugh:

I need the simplest and cheapest package, just a landline with an old style phone that when you lift the receiver, you are connected. Lockable, so the nurses cannot phone their boyfriends. For incoming calls only. And receiver to be attached to the telephone body so she cannot wander off with it.
I checked the telecom website. So many products...very confusing.
Can anyone advise please?
Thanks in advance
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thechamp said:
What you need is to call Telkom and apply for a landline, strictly a voice line, they will try to sell you their calling plans and everything, kindly decline these as the phone wont be used for outgoing calls. I don't know if Telkom's packages include a phone, usually the customer supplies their own phone that a technician will plug-in after installation. You can ask Telkom if they supply those but I bet it won't be the old style phone that you looking for. After the phone is installed you need to call Telkom and ask them to put a block on outgoing calls, that's about it.

You can also apply for what is called a "fixed line look alike", it is the same as a landline but its not dependent on copper but rather uses a wireless network, when copper thieves strike you can still use the phone. The rental is the same as the landline so no extra costs.

Here https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/shop/home/plan/plan-variation-landline/ it's the landline or FLLA for R199 that you are looking for.
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Umm - as this is in a frailcare home you cannot just install a landline without consent of the home.

I'm not sure why you simply do not contact the nurse/sister/whomever to organise communications with her?
 
Splinter said:
Umm - as this is in a frailcare home you cannot just install a landline without consent of the home.

I'm not sure why you simply do not contact the nurse/sister/whomever to organise communications with her?
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I honestly have no idea how things work with regards to that, was just advising on the process to apply for the landline. I take it that OP would have made the necessary arrangements.
 
Splinter said:
Umm - as this is in a frailcare home you cannot just install a landline without consent of the home.

I'm not sure why you simply do not contact the nurse/sister/whomever to organise communications with her?
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We do but it is a bit of a drama. I have to phone, then either wait for them to get her or hang up and call again after 10 minutes. Bear in mind I am calling from overseas.
The home does give permission for landlines if you ask.
 
thechamp said:
I honestly have no idea how things work with regards to that, was just advising on the process to apply for the landline. I take it that OP would have made the necessary arrangements.
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No worries. But frail-care facilities have their own landlines. You don't simply install one to a particular room. If, as OP states, the mom has already misplaced 5 mobile phones, the simplest arrangement would be to organise a mobile phone for the nurses or sisters in charge - with agreement on how it needs to be used.
 
bokdrol said:
We do but it is a bit of a drama. I have to phone, then either wait for them to get her or hang up and call again after 10 minutes. Bear in mind I am calling from overseas.
The home does give permission for landlines if you ask.
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Then you know what you need to do. Why ask here?
 
Splinter said:
Then you know what you need to do. Why ask here?
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Why are you always such an @rsehole? I was asking about what the best and simplest landline package would be, not about whether or not it can be installed at the home. Read properly poephol
 
bokdrol said:
Why are you always such an @rsehole? I was asking about what the best and simplest landline package would be, not about whether or not it can be installed at the home. Read properly poephol
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If they give you a landline, then you are on their "package", wouldn't you say? Thus you would have to pay them for whatever it costs.

And tut, tut at the language :)
 
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