Haven’t had a landline since 2007.
Or a TV Antenna / cable connected to the Idiot Box.
FREEEEDOM!
I would never take one of their surveys anyway.
Their cell service sucks, too (10 years on that one, too). Could hardly get a signal. Went to Verizon and service is great. Who needs a landline?
The not so important reason....better sound quality.
During several recent wide-spread severe weather events we lost power, cable and cell phone service for prolonged periods. Land line phones worked throughout. I normally use a cordless, but keep an old cord phone for just such events.
“For the first time in history,”
How long is that? About 125 years?
We maintain a land line, my wife and her sister live in areas that have poor cell service. They talk twice a week.
When you are paying a $250 cellphone bill, you don’t need a landline.
We have been without one for over 5 years.
But I have a 14 boy and 10 year old girl, and they rarely answer their phone. They are not glued to their phones, YET.
Typical NPR article. A study of the obvious, and idiot use of the term Dare Devil.
We have younger adult relatives from late 20’s to 50+, who have not had a land line # for years. Most transferred that # to a cell phone a long time ago and still have that #.
Others never had a land line in their name. They have had the same cell phone # for years.
In the past 5+ years, we have friends in their 60-70+, who kept their land line #’s when they went to cell phones and cancelled their land line. Their cell phone is their life link to help, relatives and friends.
We still have our 2 land line #’s. One is an unlisted one for close friends/family members. The other is on No More Robo Calls, which eliminates the robo calls.
I have the same cell phone # I had two decades ago. My wife’s cell # is a decade old.
Cell phones could be making pollsters even more unreliable.
We have managed to keep both of our original land line phone numbers, but haven’t had a traditional POTs land line since reliable VOIP options became available. We started with Packet8 then went to Vonage, then to NetTalk, but for the last several years we have been using two Google phone accounts that are free and work with an Obihai adapter.
I would advise all to stay away from NetTalk. We had a heck of a time porting our numbers away from them after their service went flakey. They are a fly by night operation.
The problems started for us when they sent our $80 adapter a firmware update which made it unusable. We eventually got it to work again by using advice from online forums, NetTalk’s customer service was completely worthless. And trying to port our numbers away even though we were paid up for a year in advance was almost impossible. So we lost approximately $150 worth of service and equipment. Overall, it still worked out cheaper than Vonage or the phone company if you count the time that it did work.
Until recently, we retained our land line because it’s a life-line service that is there whether or not you have power ( that is if you have a POTS only telephone instrument that doesn’t need house power to function). But AT&T wants to get rid of copper-based wireline phone service so they have continually reduced service and raised costs. So we elected to go with VOIP service which is cheaper, and if you have a battery backup on your modem, you have what is pretty close to lifeline service. The biggest problem with both services is “unwanted callers.” Now, 90% of our incoming calls are scam, telemarketer, etc calls and unlike a cellular phone, blocking is simply too difficult to use with either VOIP or wireline. As it is, my personal cell phone now has about 150 blocked caller numbers in my Contacts List.
So much for Do Not Call, another fraud brought to you by your “friends” at the FCC.
Don’t feel safe with just a cellphone. Far too often my wife forgets to charge hers or mine gets misplaced. Would hate to need an ambulance in he middle of the night and not have a phone. I chose an Internet phone service. Meets my needs for an occasional phone call and there when I might need it.
Another scam is the DNA testing for your “genealogy”. What they really want is to put everything about your physical characteristics into a database for diabolical future use. Seriously, who cares what percentages of you came from various places in Europe... moreover, how would you even know they’re correct in their analysis. What a scam!