Communications

[glow worm]

I would imagine that most of us here have their own mobile but do you also pay for a landline for the business and if not, how do you cope without it? In all honesty, our landline only used really as answer machine by officials or messages for the business as a whole. + some businesses/ NHS etc very reluctant to leave messages on mobile
Dedicating one mobile won't work as OH never answers + dosent do email and other mobile can't always pass messages on. As a cost saving, would like to cancel landline but think too difficult to lose answer machine facility. Any suggestions?!

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I haven’t had any official dealings via the landline for over a decade. I don’t see any problem really with using a mobile- just make sure that everyone you potentially want to hear from has your number and get rid of the landline.

 

[Dairyfarmerswife]

We use a web based service called Dial9 which acts as a landline for a business we run. There are numerous routing options including diverting to a mobile or to a voicemail. Voicemails left on the service come in via email so I can access them anywhere. It takes a bit of setting up but it's relatively cheap compared to a traditional landline and I think you could transfer an existing number across if necessary.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Everything is done on the mobile since we got Starlink. Ditched BT the minute it was working, land-line & all.
NHS no problem. They text providing of course they have your number
SS

 

[robs1]

Not had a landline for nearly ten years, not a problem yet

 

[essex man]

Not had a landline for at least ten years, run the whole thing from mobile plus desktop a little bit.

 

[sjt01]

We transferred our landline number to a VOIP provider, Ring Central, a few years ago. Now we have a menu system so cheese orders go straight to the cheeseroom rather than bother everyone else. Messages go to email, can go to various destinations - office calls to me and farm secretary, house calls to wife and me. Quite a saving on landline.

 

[steveR]

I would imagine that most of us here have their own mobile but do you also pay for a landline for the business and if not, how do you cope without it? In all honesty, our landline only used really as answer machine by officials or messages for the business as a whole. + some businesses/ NHS etc very reluctant to leave messages on mobile
Dedicating one mobile won't work as OH never answers + dosent do email and other mobile can't always pass messages on. As a cost saving, would like to cancel landline but think too difficult to lose answer machine facility. Any suggestions?!

Get a VoIP phone and service for "landline" use. Very flexible, and easy to transfer calls etc.

£6/month now and using Starlink (not cheap) so all savings appreciated.

We HAVE to have a landline, as mobile coverage is so crap here...

 

[Nearly]

Land what?

 

[Old McDonald]

I have never had a mobile phone - except a foreign bank with which I formerly did business would only send a security code to it and not a landline. I have never needed a mobile phone. I found that very few things in life are sufficiently urgent to warrant one.

 

[Nearly]

I have never had a mobile phone - except a foreign bank with which I formerly did business would only send a security code to it and not a landline. I have never needed a mobile phone. I found that very few things in life are sufficiently urgent to warrant one.

Agreed, but when an urgent matter comes along it's nice to have the option.
999 calls etc?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Err, I haven’t had a landline ( it’s not available here where I live for the last 4 years ) for at least 5 years & haven’t really bothered with using a landline as main form of communication for at least 10 years now

However, as said, landline isn’t even an option where I live now

 

[MrNoo]

Not had a landline for nearly ten years, not a problem yet

Snap, it's bliss, no nimby villagers phoning at stupid hours moaning about anything and everything, no PPI calls and any other unwanted junk calls that always seem to occur the moment you've sat down and about to eat your first mouthful of supper or lunch.
All the important people I deal with etc have my mobile number, not missed it at all. Also the added benefit of being able to "block" anyone you don't wish to speak to on the mobile.

 

[Drillman]

Binned our land line earlier this year, no one ever used it and was just a cost.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

I would imagine that most of us here have their own mobile but do you also pay for a landline for the business and if not, how do you cope without it? In all honesty, our landline only used really as answer machine by officials or messages for the business as a whole. + some businesses/ NHS etc very reluctant to leave messages on mobile
Dedicating one mobile won't work as OH never answers + dosent do email and other mobile can't always pass messages on. As a cost saving, would like to cancel landline but think too difficult to lose answer machine facility. Any suggestions?!

There is always a possibility of a semaphore station but you need a good set of field glasses for distance calling.......
I'll get my hat.
SS

 

[David.]

Only have mobiles here for nearly 10 yrs.
Self and wife mutually divert calls to each other, if unavailable or unanswered. Usually get one of us.
Anyone else can e-mail/ WhatsApp, or stroll on.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Land what?

girls

 

[delilah]

Only got a burner phone. Will be a cold day in hell before I have s smart phone. Waste enough time on bollox like TFF as it is without being able to do so when out the house.

 

[robs1]

Only got a burner phone. Will be a cold day in hell before I have s smart phone. Waste enough time on bollox like TFF as it is without being able to do so when out the house.

Smart phones are very useful for banking on the move or when away and using the net for checking parts etc in the field but they can waste time too

 

[Jonp]

No landline, no TV (or licence) no computer. Just a smart phone....it does everything I could ever want....provided I don't loose my reading specs