Do you still use your landline?

[DieselRob]

After years of trying to persevere with broadband through the phone line I have now signed up to satellite broadband, we are just too far from the green box exchange to get a consistent reliable broadband service.

The question is do I bother to pay line rental, I can't remember the last time I made or received a call on the landline as we just use our mobiles all the time. But once it's gone is it gone forever? Logic says I don't need it... but do I?

 

[Weare Cham]

I am in the same situation with radio broadband, I could easily do with a landline but I signed up with the cheapest landline only (no broadband) deal I could find for the older generation who have a "phone book" to leave a message and I call them back on my mobile.
Went with the post office.

 

[Scribus]

Yes I do!

One's mobile phone number has become almost an identity number and short of tattooing it on our forearms we are pretty much controlled and tracked by it. I certainly do not give it out to government departments or others who have no business in wanting for their records, yes I know it will have found it's way into various departmental databases but I refuse to be governed by it.

 

[nivilla1982]

Only have the landline in for the broadband, very seldom it rings about from the odd call centre trying to sell you something.

 

[Farmer Roy]

don't even have a landline

the only reason I had it in the previous house was for ADSL broadband internet

that's not available here, so I have a wireless router for the PC

don't ring anyone on landlines anymore - except shops / office based businesses.

If I want to speak to a specific person, I ring THEIR phone - not a fixed landline number where they live that they might happen to be at the time . . .
most people I know are too mobile & I refuse to ring others or answer the phone before 7.00am or after 9.00pm. I make all the calls I need during the day. "Nightime" is for family / relaxation / down time - NOT to be disturbed by phone calls . . .

 

[capfits]

Kept landline only because if power goes it is only Comms that will keep working. Mobile is mixed at my home and power outages happen a few times a year, geese, weather etc
Was tempted by our wireless broadband and using something like Yay.com but the outages thing could become a problem. Also BT engineers stood on fibre cable in exchange and put service out for a few days!

 

[Filthyfarmer]

Landline is a must here, mobile signal is in house, May change when I upgrade phone that will wifi call.

 

[Dman2]

Use our landline in the office
Mobile signal is crap in there
Mother won`t answer a call if it`s a mobile number either FFS

 

[Paddington]

Still use landline, mobile signal very patchy only 2G, we could get microwave link but limited usage. Fibre optic still being promised.......one day.

 

[Bald Rick]

Like to bin it but with very elderly parents, they can’t cope with ringing a mobile number even if programmed in.

One day, Rodney

 

[Boysground]

I now have fttp so my landline is voip. TBH the only reason I keep it is because it’s also my house. I can answer the landline on my mobile but with wi fi calling I use mobile for almost all of my business.

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[7610 super q]

Still got landline, but gawd knows why, between the nuisance calls, and BT's astonishingly bad service...... when the wind drops, I'll be out with the ladder fixing loose wires again. BT won't send anyone out till I can prove who I am.... ??‍

 

[DrWazzock]

Fortunate to have good 4g signal here so use an EE 4g hub for broadband 16mb/s and it has never let me down. About £37 for 100 GB IIRC, which is less than the landline rental and use a mobile for calls anyway for £5 per month.

Have cancelled the landline broadband as it was utterly useless, usually 0.2 m /s and this rain would have really nailed it. Might cancel the landline entirely. In verge of doing so.

 

[kelletview]

You could get a VOIP phone (Voice Over Internet Phone) .
We have fiber broadband and a box to connect the router to the phone.
We are with vonage. Our package costs £12 per month + . Calls to landlines are free.
You can keep your old landline number. Of corse your phone wont work in a power cut or broadband outage. They even send sticker to put on the phones to remind you.
We still get loads of bogus phone calls tho.

 

[wanton dwarf]

I now have fttp so my landline is voip. TBH the only reason I keep it is because it’s also my house. I can answer the landline on my mobile but with wi fi calling I use mobile for almost all of my business.

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Was that a straight forward contract for the service with a telecoms provider or did you have to pay infrastructure costs like installation of the line, trench work etc as well ?

 

[Paddington]

Still got landline, but gawd knows why, between the nuisance calls, and BT's astonishingly bad service...... when the wind drops, I'll be out with the ladder fixing loose wires again. BT won't send anyone out till I can prove who I am.... ??‍

We must have spoken to the same guy at the call centre, told me I was not their customer as they didn't recognise my landline number which hadn't changed for years and was the one I was talking to him on. Kept getting this excuse from them until I asked the call centre chap for his home address. Why ? Well money was being taken from our account every month by BT so this was fraud and I would be contacting the Indian Police Fraud Section who would need to see him for a little chat.....ten minutes later we had a new contract, much faster broadband at half the price we were paying now.

 

[Katarina]

I must be in the minority as I don't have a mobile phone. Lost it over two years ago and never replaced it. Do all our calls and business though the land-line . Seems to be everyone is living off there mobile phone these days.

 

[DrWazzock]

I must be in the minority as I don't have a mobile phone. Lost it over two years ago and never replaced it. Do all our calls and business though the land-line . Seems to be everyone is living off there mobile phone these days.

I am hardly in house during the day so ringing the landline is useless. My mobile is my office and I can be contacted anywhere any time on it.
There was a day when the haulage firm rang on Sunday night to plan the weeks beet deliveries. It worked well, but now we seem to get half an hours notice, any time. I couldn't function without my mobile, not because of changes I have made, but because the way the system external to my farm has changed.

 

[Drillman]

I keep the landline purely for those people who I don’t want ringing my mobile.

Defra, and farm assurance been the main ones!

 

[Boysground]

Was that a straight forward contract for the service with a telecoms provider or did you have to pay infrastructure costs like installation of the line, trench work etc as well ?

Went with BT the end. 1 over head cable run in. Took a couple of hours to do. I now get 70 mbs with 300 available if I pay. All I paid for was the box in the office. I am actually paying a little less for the contract than I was for separate broadband and phone service.

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