How many still have a Landline in their home?

[lman]

We've been seriously thinking about dropping the landline. Had it for 20 years, bad habits are hard to break.

I had mine for 40 years and decided that they stole enough of my money. You would think the competing cell phones would make their prices and fees more reasonable.

 

[Doofy]

Our Co-Op requires everyone to have a landline wether you want it or not. That doesn't sit well with me at all. No other decent choices for internet though.

 

[AWSubie]

All phone service in my area went to Voice Over Internet Protocol some years ago. It is interesting that many people I know beleive that they still have a traditional land line when in fact they have a VoIP phone.

 

[grsthegreat]

Also as a note.... in the 4-5 years before I stopped wiring new homes in my business, I only recall 1 home that wanted wired phone lines. Still did catv, but no phone wiring. Inspectors even stopped requiring the 1 phone jack requirement rule years ago. People just didn’t have landlines.

 

[ultrarunner]

My place built by retired Telco guy... Phones in every room including bathrooms, out buildings and garage... plus double the amount of jacks even out to where his brother would park the RV when visiting...

I've yet to turn on the phones and doubtful I ever will.

 

[Travelover]

No landline, but still have all the cordless phones bluetoothed to the cell phone. This allows me to answer the phone in any room or the garage regardless of where the cell phone is actually located.

 

[DieselnHooters]

I am going back to a land line next week, tried a cell but signall is so weak it cuts off in the midddle of a conversation or works only one way. Tried internet phone VOIP, works great 2 or 3 days out of 10, again most time works only one way, they hear me fine but it cuts 3 words out of five on my side. Was willing to try WIFI call over the cell phone but my provider informed me I would need to upgrade my cheap yearly package to a much more expensive monthly one so no thx.

 

[psvfd]

No landline, but still have all the cordless phones bluetoothed to the cell phone. This allows me to answer the phone in any room or the garage regardless of where the cell phone is actually located.

We bought the bluetooth to cell and used it for a few months,now just use the cells. Got rid of the wired phones and DSL. We do not use the internet much, but have a hotspot unlimited.

We had them port home number to my wife cell, had that number many years.

 

[MossRoad]

I hear a lot of comments about keeping landlines for answering machines.... cell phones have answering machine built in. It's called voice mail. You can play it over and over again, forward it to someone else, block the calls, screen the calls. Works great.

For those of you that like having phone extensions in your house, you can keep those with a cell phone. We dropped our landline and had the number ported to an old iPhone5 that remains on a charger 24/7. We kept our same phone number that everyone we know uses. No changes to them. We have 3 cordless phones in our house and a wired phone out in the detached garage. The cordless phone base station is bluetooth capable, and it is paired to the iPhone5.

When grandma calls the same number she's called for 35 years, it rings the iPhone5, that rings all of the cordless phones and the wired phone in the garage. We pick up a handset and start talking.

Conversely, if we want to make a call, we pick up any handset in the house and dial the number we choose. It calls out on the iPhone5 and people on the other end see it as our regular number. Again, nothing changes for us or them.

Towards the end of our landline usage, we had several problems with line degradation. They came out 2-3 times in the last 2 years, switched to a few different pairs of the old underground, ran new lines overhead after that failed, changed lines in a "box down the road" a couple times, etc... I'm glad to be done with it.

 

[MossRoad]

No landline, but still have all the cordless phones bluetoothed to the cell phone. This allows me to answer the phone in any room or the garage regardless of where the cell phone is actually located.

Same here. :thumbsup: