Do You Still Have Your Landline Phone

[Bobbisox1]

I do as well as us both having mobiles, a lot of my friends have got rid of their landlines but I'm loathe to do this ( dunno why)
Internet goes through a landline , doesn't it?

[Bobbisox1]

Oops wrong section, sorry, should have gone in CB

[royfromaus]

It's unplugged.

[Bobbisox1]

And do you still pay it Roy?

[jourdain2]

Can't live without it Bobbi. We have bad reception in our village for mobiles generally and where we live there is simply no signal. I have told and told banks etc., etc. that there is no point in using a mobile number - but they still keep demanding it and using it. On the point of going in and threatening them! Mobiles only go on when we are out.

[barry1010]

Yes. Some people in my house cannot use mobile phones so I keep it in case they need to dial 999

[jourdain2]

^^^ We have simple pay-as-you-go phones. No point in anything fancy or a contract.

[Barsel]

Yes I still have my landline phone, it's my main phone. I have a small mobile phone that I've had for donkeys years and I take that out with me in case I need it in an emergency. It isn't a smart phone, so doesn't have the internet on it, but I don't need the internet when I'm out.

[Bobbisox1]

We have excellent reception for mobiles but we still keep our landline

[ladybirder]

I haven'y much signal either so I don't give out my number. I put my landline number where the mobile should be if they insist.

[pastafreak]

I have a landline only because I need a phone line for jnternet. But, as I understand it...it doesn't need to be plugged in? I never use it.

[Bobbisox1]

I use ours more than my mobile

[royfromaus]

Bobbisox1
And do you still pay it Roy?
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It was cheaper with the landline but there was method in their madness. Just using the phone a couple of times cost a fortune, hence it got unplugged.

[KARL]

In the UK it is, so far as I understand, impossible to have internet on it's own (tell me if I am wrong) and thus we have a landline with phone and internet. In our case the phone is there for incoming calls but we bypass the provider by using a VOIP service which is far cheaper than any contract that includes call costs ("included" or "free" calls). As royfromaus says, any calls made on a individual charge regime is hugely expensive.

[royfromaus]

You're wrong

[Ken4155]

I have a landline phone but it's never plugged in. 2 days after having it installed in order to get broadband package (BT), i was getting nuisance calls. I didn't even know my own number at that time but lots of cold callers sure did.

[Ken4155]

Should have added, my broadband is now with Vodafone and i do not pay a charge for the landline, making it £20 per month cheaper than the BT package i was using.

[Bobbisox1]

I'm lucky I very rarely get a cold call Ken

[woofgang]

yes I keep my landline. its the number I give out to all and sundry. Friends and family get my mobile number.

[lankeela]

I have not had a landline plugged in for several years - makes me cross that we are forced to pay for it to get broadband. You would have thought that by now they would have come up with a system where you could have broadband without having to pay for a landline you don't want. I pay less than a tenner a month for my mobile with plenty of data and unlimited calls so would never use a landline even if I had one plugged in.

[douglas9401]