No old fashioned tty's for moi. I use myiprelay with my own phone number issued by ip-relay so if anyone who calls me and I aint online they just can leave a message for me on the email. Then I'll call the person back on the ip-relay if it is a hearing person.
Forget the standard phoneline for me cuz im on cablemodem and the iprelay services and their issuing my personal phone nbr and stuff are a godsend for me. I hate the idea of giving a hearing person a headache of 2 phone numbers: The Tennessee Relay Service, then my personal phone number. It was such a waste of time until the myiprelay started issuing personal one-stop phone numbers.
Using a TTY to me is like being kicked back to the Stone Age when we're zooming toward the Space Age.
vp isnt for me after all Im out of the house pretty much.