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Do You Still Have a Landline?

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I believe that everyone should have a landline for emergencies.
Get a basic landline with paid outgoing and free incoming without all the extras and it shouldn't be more than $20 a month,
They will try very very hard to upsell you but they are required by law to provide a basic landline service.
Then put a wired phone and an answering machine on the line at the min.
A wired phone will work when the power is out.
 
I suspect I will still have a landline 20 years from now. It''s like my need to be overinsured, I need to have it merely for the sense of security. I live in Canada, and we have much higher landline and cell phone rates. I''m paying around $500/month for a landline and 4 cell phones. We mostly just use the cell phones for texting, and 2 of those are our daughter''s phones that we pay for (for now!).

My friends in the US are switching to cell phones only. That is definitely the way the trend is going. I would love to be free of having a ringing phone in the house, but I''m just weird with needing the stupid thing!
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My parents do.. but I don''t and BF doesn''t. When you can get plans with unlimited EVERYTHING for $99... It''s a way better deal! Unless the power goes out. And you can''t charge your cell.
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We still have a landline. DH and I were just talking about whether we really need one, but there are still a lot of folks that call us on the landline. Plus I am not sure of the safety of long term use of cell phones, so I am inclined to keep our landline for now.
 
We still have a landline. My cell phone reception isn''t the best here.
 
Date: 1/6/2009 2:10:08 PM
Author: SanDiegoLady
Date: 1/6/2009 12:22:41 PM

Author: SanDiegoLady

Absolutely. We are both required to keep a landline for work.. I've never been without one.

Ok on the Emergency/911 side of this issue.. if someone is calling for an emergency.. we can't see where you are. Only where the cell tower hit is.


If you are calling from home on a cell phone no address is shown, only your carrier information and the closest tower it hits off of- remember the radius can be pretty large. I have had calls where I have had a screaming caller and I can't get them help immediately because they only use their cell phone at home. We have a lot of college students who's contact information is from outside of the state and the same goes for that situation.


I think its still important to use your home phone for home based emergencies.. just a thought.
that is why I have a landline because during a bad asthma attack I might not be able to give them my address on the cell phone.
The cell has gps and they are gps enabled but that will only get them to my building which has 14 apartments.
 
Date: 1/6/2009 2:14:40 PM
Author: strmrdr
Date: 1/6/2009 2:10:08 PM

Author: SanDiegoLady

Date: 1/6/2009 12:22:41 PM


Author: SanDiegoLady


Absolutely. We are both required to keep a landline for work.. I''ve never been without one.


Ok on the Emergency/911 side of this issue.. if someone is calling for an emergency.. we can''t see where you are. Only where the cell tower hit is.



If you are calling from home on a cell phone no address is shown, only your carrier information and the closest tower it hits off of- remember the radius can be pretty large. I have had calls where I have had a screaming caller and I can''t get them help immediately because they only use their cell phone at home. We have a lot of college students who''s contact information is from outside of the state and the same goes for that situation.



I think its still important to use your home phone for home based emergencies.. just a thought.

that is why I have a landline because during a bad asthma attack I might not be able to give them my address on the cell phone.

The cell has gps and they are gps enabled but that will only get them to my building which has 14 apartments.

Hm, I''m also asthmatic. Yikes.
 
Yah--we have one.
 
Date: 1/6/2009 2:16:04 PM
Author: AmberWaves


Hm, I''m also asthmatic. Yikes.
Then there is no question you should get a basic landline with phones on all floors whether you ever use it for calls or not at the min.
 
We only have a landline for our fax otherwise we would not.
 
We don''t have one, but when we moved, I changed my cell phone number to get a local area code. If we didn''t have at least one contact number with a local area code, I think some places (dr.''s offices, ordering food, etc.) would get mad. Most places don''t have a problem calling a cell phone, but some still want a local number.
 
We have a landline because of the bundle for the reason SDL said.
 
We don''t have a land line. I had always had one, but the last time I moved cities, I gave the number out, but people just called my cell. It never got used. After I got married, my husband, who hadn''t had a land line in years, refused to answer it. Ever. Even when he was home sitting right next to it and I''d call the house on it. After that, I got rid of it. No one called it and he wouldn''t answer it. It became useless.

We don''t miss it AT ALL. His phone rings constantly. Far more than mine does. I''m afraid I''d become a viritual switchboard operator if we had a land line.
 
No landline. Haven''t had one in years.

Although now that I have a child, I am thinking we need to have one when he''s a little older, especially for emergencies. Parents, what do you think?
 
When I tried to switch my DSL to Naked DSL (doesn''t require landline) they gave me a retention deal. For about $2.50 a month, I get 60 local outgoing calls a month with unlimited incoming calls. You might want to consider that. Like Strm said, I think landline is good to have. Actually if I really needed to cut back on expenses, I would get rid of my cell phone.
 
Nope. I haven't had a landline for about 6 years. DH had one his senior year of college because there was no cell reception in his apt, but that was the last time for him too.

I really don't know anyone my age with a landline. Even DH's mom got rid of hers. I agree it's an interesting question about what to do when you have small children. My cousins have kids and still no landline...but there are some pretty telling studies about developing brains and cell phones, so I don't want my someday tyke to have one nor do I really want to have six year olds calling my cell to see if little Elmortspring can come play...so my guess is that we'd probably go back to a land phone at some point. But maybe not - can't say til the time comes.
 
Have one. Always will. I never do anything of a financial nature on a cell, and like many others, I note that the corded types are much more reliable and the reception is far beyond the best cell I''ve ever heard. And I despise anything but the shortest conversations on a cell phone.
 
we have to have one for the Tivo and for our home security system but we don''t have a phone in the house. we only use our cells.
 
Luckily our security system has a button on the key pad for police, fire, or paramedics. Also works in a power outage.
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We have a land line again after years of being without. We got one simply for the safety of our child. I know many kids have cells, but I wouldn''t want to leave my son with a babysitter without a land line.
 
Gotta have a landline. We have awful cell connection in our house due to solar shield under our roof. So going outside for every phone call is not
acceptable. I also have a number dedicated for my fax line, so we have 2 landlines. Used to have 3 when the kids were home.
Using a landline is so much easier for me.
 
Date: 1/6/2009 1:11:53 PM
Author: gwendolyn

Date: 1/6/2009 11:05:58 AM
Author: absolut_blonde
We do - we have a digital cable, cable internet and landline package.
Ditto.
Double ditto! We eliminated the regular phone service and went with the cable package. MUCH cheaper and I like talking on a regular phone in my house.
 
Yes, I have a landline, I have a regular corded phone and a cordless phone and lol 4 cell phones
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