How many still have a Landline in their home?

[downsizingnow48]

We have not had landline in any house for 15 years maybe more. After cell phones came in the only landline calls we got were from junk marketers.

At the Mendocino place the ground level cell signal is too weak to use, so I put a booster antenna on a 25 ft pole above the roof, aimed at the closest tower. That works fine.

 

[oosik]

Thirty eight plus years. Never had a land line. Started with a Motorola Bag Phone - now an Apple XR.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We have a landline, and have had for over 50 years. It's a matter of not wanting to change, plus all of our friends, relatives and neighbors know our number has not changed in all that time and they can reach one or both of us at that number. We have extensions in every room, the garage and the shop...which makes it handy, because I never carry my cell phone unless I leave the house by my self. Yeah, it costs us an extra few bucks a month, but we like it. We even have one old style extension that is powered by the telephone line, so if we lose electricity, we still have one phone that will work.

 

[3Ts]

We added a land line a few years ago. We are in an area that has no usable cell coverage. We lived here for awhile before we could get any form of communications with the outside world, we had to go into town to use a cell phone. So, as soon as we met the criteria, we had a land line installed. All the circuits were already used so the phone company had to install a new trunk cable and to tunnel under a State highway which involved the state and getting approvals to do so. Lots of time and lots of money went into getting us a land line. However, we are seniors and we got the basic "health & safety" rate of $40 for the installation. I'm sure it was more like $4k to do all that they did. We have a basic rate, but by the time the taxes and fees are added it's 4 times that cost. Still, to talk to folks from our house, it's the only way. Sometimes the cell will connect here, but rarely. We now have a satellite link so the phone is connected to wifi, but the calls over it are poor, text messaging mostly works, and the land line still works much better. However, we do have a problem with the land line when major storms come thru and may take a few days for the land line to be fixed.

IF, we had reliable cell coverage and internet linkage, we'd consider dropping the land line. (The land line has it's own power source and will work when the towers don't)

 

[Tomtint]

We have a landline only for a designated fax line.

 

[fatjay]

I still have my landline phone. It costs nearly nothing to keep going. Any time we sign up to some membership service, like acme rewards, etc we use that number so a) no annoying spam texts on cell phones and b) we don't have to remember which of our cell phones we used to sign up when they tell us to put in our phone number at the register.

And i've had the number for ages. It's my number. It's part of the original local exchange that my parents had when I grew up. And you simply can't get them anymore.

 

[oosik]

Ha, ha. My cell phone. I turn it on when I want to make a phone call. I TRY to remember to turn it on in the evening. To see if I got any messages worth returning. For whatever reason - I can count the "junk calls/texts" I get annually on the cell phone on one hand.

 

[rekees4300]

We have a Frontier landline. It's $54/mo. and doesn't even include Call Forwarding. That feature would be another $9/mo. Get "No Dial Tone" almost everytime it rains. Takes Frontier up to a week to fix it. There was a 31 day period in 2019 that it was out for 27 days and had to be "fixed" 4 times by Frontier. No phone is a serious problem for 911, etc. so we got a wireless backup phone from Verizon. It's $23/mo, includes Call Forwarding and voice quality is better than Frontier's landline.

 

[lman]

We have a Frontier landline. It's $54/mo. and doesn't even include Call Forwarding. That feature would be another $9/mo. Get "No Dial Tone" almost everytime it rains. Takes Frontier up to a week to fix it. There was a 31 day period in 2019 that it was out for 27 days and had to be "fixed" 4 times by Frontier. No phone is a serious problem for 911, etc. so we got a wireless backup phone from Verizon. It's $23/mo, includes Call Forwarding and voice quality is better than Frontier's landline.

If you have cell service or internet service, why don't you drop your problematic landline phone service.

 

[rekees4300]

If you have cell service or internet service, why don't you drop your problematic landline phone service.

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