I have a landline. It costs me 39 dollars a month. I have seen cell phones cost quite a bit more.
My landline company (Cox) has a thing called Nomorobo which blocks some but it is very annoying. I see someone on here said ‘just see if you recognize the number and if you don’t don’t answer the call’.
The problem with this is you have to constantly go to the phone and look to see who is calling. 99 percent of the time it is a robo caller. It’s maddening. Remember the ‘do not call’ list thing, that I am on. Does nothing. When are they going to address this?!
I set my ringtones to various rings.
My favorites list, the one I would answer any time, any where, is one.
My general contact list of businesses and doctors, and casual acquaintances, get another.
Everyone else gets Verizon’s annoying default ringtone that I know I can ignore anytime and any where.
Yeah, it took some time to set the ringtones, but hey, what else are you going to do in a doctor’s waiting room waiting for your 5 minutes with him?
My son used to get these cheap cell phones. Not sure what he was paying though but I suspect it wasn’t much more than $40 a month but I could be wrong.
I still have a landline also but I only use it for outgoing calls and turn ringer off. At times I find a good ol’ landline convenient for handsfree calling.
Landline is just too annoying to have to rely on exclusively for incoming calls plus no text, email access or internet while one is on the run.