Comment by wink

On the other hand I'd have to buy a special headset (this tiny jack) for my handset and overall it's much harder to block callers. But mostly I can't talk hands-free without buying something new.

Also 90% of the time the callers on the landline want my wife and not me, but I'm the one working from home. "Calling the apartment" doesn't make sense for everyone.

I don't really see _any_ benefit since they switched this over to mandatory transparent VoIP. A dedicated ISDN line as a backup was good, I agree.