I dropped the landline in Dec. It was $25/ month just to sit there. Any long distance call added $5 to the bill by the time they added all their extra fees.
I found a pay-as-you-go cellular for $100/year with 600 minutes of usage (I don’t make that many calls). I also found MagicJack, which allows me to make long distance calls. It only costs $20 per year. The combo of MagicJack and cellular give me more options and cost 2/3 less than the phone company’s $300/year landline.
The phone companies are losing hefty revenue over their landline coverage. I’ll mention the fact we only have cell coverage and perhaps half the people I talk to say the same thing. We don’t do a lot of long distance, and the majority of cell calls is between my wife and myself. So we don’t have to have mega minutes coverage. And we’ve never gone beyond our minutes. Works for me...