Where’s the “I’m already gone” selection?
There will come a day when only rich people have wired phones in their houses.
My wife and I discussed this yesterday. We can’t get DSL. We both use cells. Why keep the landline.
I dumped my last landline over a year ago. I now have only Vonage, which I’ve had since 2003, and cell.
I had added a cable line (Charter), but it seems I was paying for a direct line from telemarketers, credit collectors, and “Who dis? Lemme talk to Mashika” at 2.40 AM.
I will say, the cable line was very reliable. It never went off, whereas with Vonage, when my internet goes out, so does my phone. Still, Vonage offers many more features for a lesser price.
What’s a land line? We just lost power for 6 days. My iPhone was my lifeline. Email, Internet, phone and games on one device. I don’t take my computer with me anymore when I travel.
Same here. Another reason is that it's more resistant to interrupton than cell phones if things gets bad.
I have cells & 2 land lines. One is for my business & I can’t get rid of that. I won’t get rid of my cells or my land lines. Well, I will keep them as long as I can afford them & if I can’t the cells are going first.
me too... DSL requires a landline for me too.
Otherwise, it would be gone!
Polly
My security system is connected to my landline.
I wanted to cut off the land phone, but a security connection is not always dependable through the cell phones, so I’ve been told.
I foresee landline phones going the way of newspapers.
As younger people age, they will reject the old technology in favor of the new.
Getting rid of my DSL in January. I hate my landline, I rarely use it because I work 2 jobs, and I get a bunch of telemarketing calls. And that ringing is annoying. Plus it's $30 a month and that's all fees, federal and state taxes, plus a "Line Maintenance Charge" from the phone company. I did a cost comparison and it was cheaper to switch to Road Runner and get a real cell phone instead of using Tracfone.
I just converted to Verizon FIOS TV pkg. I insisted would I would only do it if my copper Network Interface was kept as my phone source. They wanted to put it on fiber-optic. That would be subject to power outage with an 8 hour battery backup. We’ve had hurricanes that lost our power for days. No, big destruction like Florida, just trees knocking lines down.
The phone companies want to stop supporting landlines. While I was talking with the Verizon saleswoman, we got disconnected. When the saleswoman got back on the line, she tried to tell me that was an example of how unreliable the landlines copper wire was.
What a joke. She had clearly disconnected us for effect. When I wanted to get my husband to agree to the TV package, she managed to get him right on the line in a three-way call without going through the conference call numbers my husband has to do to talk to many people. She just connected BAMM.
I was in a cell phone retail store yesterday, getting on a new carrier, new handsets, etc. While talking with the rep, I learned he’s still a big believer in having a land line at home, as a result of experience gained while wireless-only during a blizzard and multi-day power outage when he lived in Iowa some years back. “Wireless only” meant “no communications” at that time.
I concur with his reasoning. In natural disasters that kill the power grid, landlines work, or work first.
will be landline (and phone spam) free for 3 years next month. Our home security system is even set up through our cell phones.