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Who still has a landline number?

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I still do. It came with the internet by o2. The funny thing was that you had to have a landline phone to call some number and register your connection (or whatever) so that you could use the Internet.
I don't even own a landline phone so the cable guy did it for me.
 
I haven't had a landline since 2009. The only issue I ever had was when I somehow lost or had my cellphone stolen (it up and disappeared) and I had to activate an older phone to have access to a phone at all. Depressing, because it also meant I lost my unlimited plan at Verizon.
 
My parents have a VoIP number as their home phone even though both have cell phones. They like having that old house phone I guess, and for $10 per month now compared to the $50 per month they had from the telephone company for a basic land line (no extras, not even caller I'd) they deem it a low enough cost that they want it.
 
Sure do... Though it's free with the package for cable and internet. I was planning to update the alarm system to a SIM setup, but since it's free...

...It's not a issue yet.
 
My elderly in laws won't call our cellphone, the landline is bundled with our cable, I like yelling at Indian scammers, I use the number to sign up for junk, and I feel a smug sense of superiority knowing that polling data is highly flawed.
 
I still have a physical landline but I don't know the number and there's no phone attached to it. It's purely for my internet connection.
 
I'm in the UK so yeah we have a landline but i've no idea what the number is an we don't even have a phone connected to it. In fact it's a bit of a pain twice a year when we have to find one so we can call Sky and cancel Sky F1 when the F1 season is over :D
 
I used to have a Obihai device that used Google Voice for a home phone when I was using the T-Mobile $30/100 minute plan. Haven't used it since I got unlimited minutes though. Nobody ever calls me and I only talk maybe 200 minutes a month, so paying for a landline would be pointless.

My parents still have one though.
 
No traditional landline, but have a VoIP home phone. It's one of those base+5 handsets, so there's a phone in most every room but they only the base is connected to ethernet. It's a nice thing to have with little kids in case we ever have to call 911. It's less than $2 a month for the 911 fees so it's no burden.
 
Ace Harding said:
I don't, but with a 3-year old who is learning about 911 at nursery school I wonder if I should get one.

If one person was home with him and something happened and he didn't know where the person's cell phone was, it would be good for him to know there was always a phone in a certain place where he could call 911. And good to know the operator would know exactly where he was.

Is there a way to do that with a cordless phone that uses wi-fi or something? I really don't want to pay $20 a month or whatever for a phone line that never gets used.
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Look into something like this: http://www.gv911.com/

There are some other options but it largely revolves around a free/cheap voip number in combination with another service. The one I linked to is $12/year.
 
Parents/Grandparents insisted I keep one.

So I got rid of my landline and got an Ooma. It's like $4 something a month. It has my address on file for 911 purposes, and that seems to have satisfied my family so at least I'm no longer bugged about a landline anymore.

I never use it. Well I guess I do use it when I have to call long distance outside of the US, the rates are way cheaper compared to my cell phone.
 
My mom, but honestly been thinking of getting one too. They aren't really usless when it comes to getting important calls and voice mails.
 
Beefy said:
Why I said 99%. BT have the monopoly sadly , so it will be like this for years to come. Virgin also don't have phone lines everywhere so some Virgin customers have to use BT.
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Ok is this a landline hooked up with a phone, or a landline used for internet access like DSL?
 
My mother refuses to get rid of the one we have. At first, it was because it was the only number of hers that her dad 100% knows. He passed away this past April and she still won't get rid of it, though, mostly because of this $5 add-on that lets her call European landlines and one of her sisters is in Norway.
 
I do a lot of work from home, so I have one. It's also the usual number we give out when someone needs it for deliveries or services, which gets all the crap calls sent there instead of to our cell phones.
 
entremet said:
Ok is this a landline hooked up with a phone, or a landline used for internet access like DSL?
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I have no landline phone. But still have to have a phone number and still have to pay landline fees per month. I also have fibre which has it's own outlet. So my landline socket actually has nothing in it.
 
We do - and will be keeping it for a while yet. Only our oldest child has a cell phone, so it's important that there's always a phone available my youngest two..
 
I do because the only high-speed Internet available to me is DSL.

That being said, I think the phone service is "free" so whatever.
 
I do have a landline, but its strictly for business purposes. I say that as I sit here on hold for Playstation support... Ironic though that as I see this thread Im actually using the landline.
 
My Verizon package deal includes one. I don't even have a phone for it. During installation when I told the guy not to bother with the phone he was half expecting it. When my daughter is old enough to need a phone but too young for a cell phone, I'll hook it up
 
We have phone service through Time Warner but we don't even have the Ubee eMTA connected or utilize it. The only reason we have it is because it gave us a better deal on internet and tv service.

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Since I work from home also have a Cisco VOIP phone that is connected to an Aruba RAP that my employer provides.
 
I do because of kids at home, but I transferred the number to a VOIP setup and my bill is about $3 a month with more features than I ever had with the telephone company.

I'm more annoyed I didn't do that sooner lol, you can use any phone in my house and would not know the difference
 
We do, but only because we have DSL, so have to have a landline active.

We've never used the landline once, though, and don't even have a phone to plug into an outlet.
 
My family does. Its personally convenient for me because I have my mobile phone on vibrate or silent a lot, and even then its honestly not that loud if I'm elsewhere in the house. Landline phones all over the house are way more guaranteed to garner success if someone is trying to contact me (or anyone else for that matter) and actually wants someone to pick up the phone.

Plus, my home's kind of a mixed bag for my mobile phone's coverage, whereas the landline has no issues whatsoever. Also less of an issue to hand the phone over to someone if the person on the other end wants to talk to them.
 
I don't have one and it's stupid because I don't save any money by not having one.
I live in the UK and have virgin media cable Internet. I pay about £35 a month for 100mb. The cost with a phone line for the same service is about £25 a month but I have to pay an extra tenner because I don't want a phone line.
 
Yes. On most government forms it still requires me to fill in a landline telephone or it won't let me continue... I never really use it for anything else.
 
I use it to dial into my AOL and check my myspace page. I have an incoming fax, so I need to jump off the internet for now.


The only people I know with a landline # have it because of a bundle they get from their cable TV provider. Some don't even have a phone plugged in the house even with the #.
 
Beefy said:
I have no landline phone. But still have to have a phone number and still have to pay landline fees per month. I also have fibre which has it's own outlet. So my landline socket actually has nothing in it.
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Oh ok.

That's what I figured for the under 35 group.

You may have a landline but nothing is hooked up.

Costa Kid said:
Yes. On most government forms it still requires me to fill in a landline telephone or it won't let me continue... I never really use it for anything else.
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Just put your mobile. Do you think they can tell the difference?
 
I don't but I live by myself.

If you have a partner and kids, it makes total sense to have a single phone number for the household so a landline works perfect for that.
 
In the UK. I have one. I have ADSL.

And I have a phone connected to it. Since I've got to pay for the line anyway it's cheaper to call on it sometimes.
 
The last thing my parents absolutely needed a landline for was the security system, which has since been changed to connect via cellular network. My parents still maintain the landline solely because it's been their main contact phone number for 25 years and a lot of family/friends would probably not get the memo were the number to just disappear.

I did, however, port the number to Vonage with a fairly inexpensive plan and have the Vonage gateway plugged into the house wiring in place of the now-dead Verizon copper.
 
Just got rid of ours last month. We realized that the only time it was ever used was when we received wrong numbers, sales calls, and notifications from our kid's school district. When we signed up for the district's notification app/texts at the start of this school year, the landline became worthless.
 
Yes, I still have a landline. It is bundled with my cable. I use the landline number so that recruiters don't bother me at work and since I don't have a cell phone plan with a lot of voice minutes, I use it to talk to family.
 
I wonder how many people still have a real landline (POTS/copper line) vs some digital landline solution.

Seems like a lot of people still have the bundled cable phone, but that's not like the old system where you could take a wired phone and make calls even if the power was out.
 
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