If I had a suitable replacement to the DSL service I have, I’d yank the entire land line out of my house. The cell phones work just fine.
I would drop the landline, as they keep raising the prices, if there was an easy way to fax via cell phones.
It can be done from some phones, but it is complicated, currently. I don’t fax often, but it is nice to be able to fax from home when needed.
So it's absolutely nuts that they will bill us 3 dollars per month for something we don't use. When we were able to choose a long distance provider, we always took none of the above (with the flat 28cent/minute fee).
It's not surprising that landlines are going the way of vinyl records and CDs.
When we built two years ago, we didn’t even bother bringing in a landline. We’ve got decent cell coverage through Nextel and Verizon is expanding in our area.
My parents, who live nearby, dumped their landline a few months ago.
It would be interesting to see how many follow suit after the election cycle is over...the constant barrage of political calls were driving my folks crazy!
I still get political junk mail, but at least it doesn’t ring during dinner.
We use cell phones, got rid of land line about 4 years ago.
Taking a class from home today, using Skype to call into the toll-free number. took me about 10 minutes to set-up and get going. No charge...nice...