Do you still have a landline?

[Kirby]

I chuckled reading Petite's thread about her insurance forms and phone messages when she mentioned her landline.  I thought I was the last person in the world to still have one.   I keep mine while I'm still working because the reception is a lot better than my cell phone and I often do long work calls and I get annoyed with bad sound quality for an hour long call.

Do you still have a landline?  If so, is it a line with a real telecom or a "triple play" with your cable (assuming you still have cable).

[Allen ★]

I do, it’s my childhood number.  Still have a working rotary candlestick phone to go along with it too. 
I keep it partly for sentimental reasons, and partly because cell service sucks out here. Half the time I’m talking to someone: “hang on, I’m going to call you right back on the other phone. Can you hear me now? That’s much better.” is part of the conservation. 

[Kzoo]

No

[petitepedal ★]

[ChrisL]

Nope, shut down the service years ago. We even had our electrician pull the phone Jacks and the paint/dry wall guys patched & painted over the holes. No trace of a land line in our place.

[JerrySTL ★]

Yes. WoJSTL has an irrational fear of not having one even though she has a smart phone. It only costs about $20 a month. I've been telling her to give out her cell phone number. 

[shootingstar]

yes, I haven't got a cell phone yet.  The thought of constantly dragging around a cellphone and remembering all the time, the baby doesn't disappear, is a habit that I'm not thrilled about taking on right now.

[sheep_herder ★]

Yes, and even one rotary dial phone.

[AirwickWithCheese]

Absolutely, always will. 

I also miss pay phones.   

[Tizeye]

What's a landline?

[Allen ★]

50 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

Absolutely, always will. 

I also miss pay phones.   

https://www.payphone-directory.org
^^^^^
All the active AT&T pay phones. Savannah has the most. 

[Airehead]

We did not have phone jacks put in the new house. 

[maddmaxx ★]

There's a third choice.  My "landline" is voip through my internet provider.  That has most of the advantages of my old AT&T line without the disadvantage of AT&T.  If more people heard what their cell phone sounded like they might have one too.

Cell service is nice, but the audio quality sucks.

[smudge ★]

Yup. Also have a rotary phone. 

Of course we each have cell phones too.

Eliminated the land line at camp but could have it reinstated if we wanted.

Many people have landlines up here. 

[maddmaxx ★]

13 minutes ago, smudge said:

Yup. Also have a rotary phone. 

Of course we each have cell phones too.

Eliminated the land line at camp but could have it reinstated if we wanted.

Many people have landlines up here. 

I can see that if cell service is sketchy.  I can afford to have voip because cell service stays up when power goes down around here.  For a long time I kept the land line because it worked when power went out.  Unfortunately, trees and wires are a problem and they often take out the phone lines as well as the power lines.

[Longjohn ★]

Thirty years ago when we moved here we had awful phone service. I had never heard of the phone company (Alltel). Our phone was always down, it was long distance to call anyone we knew. The local calls were Meadville, we didn’t know anyone in Meadville. The phone bill was outrageous. One day we saw someone putting up a tower on Alexander’s farm across the hollow. I ask him what the tower was for and he said it’s a Verizon cell phone tower. My wife went to the Verizon store and bought three cell phones and I called Alltel and told them to stuff it. Lived happily ever after.

[groupw]

Nope. We dropped it several years ago. We asked ourselves who actually called us on the landline. Salespeople and MIL. We moved the landline number to WoW’s cell phone since she really had it used her cell much at the time. Her mom didn’t have to learn a new number. Took a bit of training for her to understand just because she answered didn’t mean we were home. No regrets. 

[Digital_photog ★]

Yes. It was cheaper to take the ADSL package that included a landline than to just get the ADSL.  We never answer it unless we recognize the number or name. Giving the landline number when you need to give a phone number for something cuts down on a lot of spam on the cell phones.

[MoseySusan]

We do, but we might shut it down. We needed it to fax paperwork for #2 son’s disability account, but that program now uses online administration and we can e-mail attachments. I know, right? Welcome to the new millennium. 
The reason we’d keep the jacks is in the event we’d have to sell the house. Not sure we wouldn’t have to put them back in at the buyer’s request. 

[Zephyr]

Yes, because there are people and companies I do not want to give my cell number to.

[shotgun]

6 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

Yes, because there are people and companies I do not want to give my cell number to.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS!

[maddmaxx ★]

6 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

Yes, because there are people and companies I do not want to give my cell number to.

I do all my business and medical via the viop because there's no confusion as to which phone is involved and which answering machine has the message.  I'm not interested in doing any of this when I'm out and on the cell phone.

[MickinMD ★]

12 hours ago, Kirby said:

I chuckled reading Petite's thread about her insurance forms and phone messages when she mentioned her landline.  I thought I was the last person in the world to still have one.   I keep mine while I'm still working because the reception is a lot better than my cell phone and I often do long work calls and I get annoyed with bad sound quality for an hour long call.

Do you still have a landline?  If so, is it a line with a real telecom or a "triple play" with your cable (assuming you still have cable).

Yes, I have a landline as part of a Verizon Triple Play with Internet and Video.  I often have long phone calls with friends and relatives and prefer using the landline.

[bikeman564™]

Not since 2005

[2Far ★]

Triple play that recently came with our switch to Xfinity. Nothing plugged into the jack & I dunno the number.

Previous LL went out with our Comcast triple play circa 2007.

[12string]

We had a landline for a few years because it made the cable and internet bill cheaper.  Had a portable phone attached, let the battery die, never had to be bothered.  Finally dropped it when we dropped the cable.

[Bikeguy]

No land line.  When we built our home in 2018, we didn't install any landline wires, outlets, etc..

WoBG and I have our cell phones.  Our cell service is just barely adequate, so I turned on wi-fi calling on both phones. All calls have good quality over the wi-fi.   Our cable modem and router are on a UPS so they never lose power.  If the power is off for a while I connect our generator to the home, that keeps everything gong.  The cable has stayed on during the last 2 power outages.  (now it won't)  So life even without utility power was still normal, except for adding gas to the generator once a day if needed.   We still can use our cell phones without the wi-fi.  The reception is better on the north side of the home.

I don't miss the landline.  We had the same phone number from 1984 to 2019.  Plus slooooow DSL service, on a good day 1Mbps.  And LOTS of span calls.  All of that for $70 a month.  At least now it is easy to block calls.

[Longjohn ★]

When a form asks for my land line# I tell them itS br-549.

[ChrisL]

2 hours ago, Zephyr said:

Yes, because there are people and companies I do not want to give my cell number to.

 

2 hours ago, shotgun said:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS!

So when we need to provide a number for non critical services we give them our old home number.  I always wondered who has that number now and how often they get robo called! 😂

[Kirby]

8 hours ago, Airehead said:

We did not have phone jacks put in the new house. 

How do you plug in your computers for dial up?  Do you still use the AOL discs? 

[UglyBob]

We just dropped ours last month. It seemed stupid to keep paying $45 a month when all we get on that one anymore is spam calls.

[BuffJim]

Nope. Haven’t missed it even once. 

[goldendesign]

5 hours ago, Zephyr said:

Yes, because there are people and companies I do not want to give my cell number to.

Just run a spoofed number on a second gmail. A google voice number is free and easy to handle. I have one specifically for my consulting work, that's actually registered to the gmail I use for that purpose so it comes up on the callerID, I have a third that is just a black-hole. The number technically works but will forever ring three times then go to a voicemail box hell. I give this to randoms that require a phone number.

 

As for the landline, removed mine back in 2001.

[Wilbur ★]

23 hours ago, Kirby said:

I chuckled reading Petite's thread about her insurance forms and phone messages when she mentioned her landline.  I thought I was the last person in the world to still have one.   I keep mine while I'm still working because the reception is a lot better than my cell phone and I often do long work calls and I get annoyed with bad sound quality for an hour long call.

Do you still have a landline?  If so, is it a line with a real telecom or a "triple play" with your cable (assuming you still have cable).

I have a cable landline.