I need cellphone advice... Please Help If You Can

I've never owned a cellphone and we are being forced to by the end of 2025. Our home telephone service is being discontinued by AT&T. They said they are no longer supporting our area, unless we have have employees of 50 or more. (Some crap like that)

Anyways, cellphones don't work out here in the sticks for one thing. They took out the payphone at bar a few years ago that's a few miles or so down road.

We mostly rely on CB radios here for wireless communication.

But we are getting pressured from our kids to get cellphones. But we don't like the idea of them, or the idea of tracking by Google. (Mainly Me)

What do you people think of Ubuntu Touch cellphones? That way no one can install no Google bullshit and technicality its not an android or Apple phone. Its in a class all by itself according to what I've reading

Your opinion please

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HootyTheNightOwl · 41-45

You can turn location off if it bothers you that much... from your angle, though, it could be safer to have location on so that your family could find you in the event that you have a seizure when you are away from the farm???

Even if you just share your location with Mrs. Earth when you're away from home and turn it off the rest of the time.

Another option could be to do similar to what you do with your landline and establish a "phone dock" somewhere at home where you keep the phone which you then use as a cordless landline phone. It doesn't move out of the house... so there's no location to track. It's pretty boring to watch actually, it just sits there on the table until you need it or it rings.