Phones, how many of you still have a landline phone?

i have a mobile but only family on it, never give the number out and only carry it for emergencies, if anyone else wants me they can call my landline and leave a message, i love the intake of breath when asked for my mobile number and i say i do not have one...lol before anyone asks i am only in my 50s and can use one.

My hubby and I originally bought our mobiles in 2001, in order to keep in easy touch with Lynne at home. She was disabled then , but nowhere near as bad as now. Mine lives in a cupboard, I only take it out if I`m going somewhere and need to phone for a taxi home. Otherwise I never use it, so I`ve almost certainly lost the money that I put in it last year. I would never get rid of the landline, even though it doesn`t in any way resemble what we called a telephone in my GPO operator days!

Whilst I agree your not ‘on call’ Hetty58 when you’re out on your own, take your phone. Even if you set the ringing tone to ‘silent’ so you’re not disturbed on your walk. At least if you trip up and hit the deck, you can whip your phone out to call someone!

@Franbern
Find it annoying that in order to get WiFi, I need also to pay for a landline. Never thought I would say this, but really do not need one any more.
If your 4g signal is good you don't need a landline for broadband, we don't have one.

We have no access to fibre and until very recently our mobile reception was extremely poor and as I said we like to keep business on the landline. I really really hate having a phone going off all the time wherever I am. The other problem we have is that we can only get wifi in half the house. We have tried almost all the bits of equipment and tricks but it doesn't work. The reason is that we have a huge brick double fireplace and bread oven about 4 foot thick going across the centre of the house, and up to roof level with a door one end through to the further room, it blocks everything

Plus, as I said on another thread. I have mild dyspraxia and numb fingertips on my right hand so I find operating a smart phone difficult.

I have house phones - but only as I have the landline with broadband. I rarely answer though, just let them go to voicemail. Everyone I know will text or email me.

I don't take my mobile when I'm out for a short while, like walking the dog.

After all - I'm not on call, feel no need to be instantly available or contactable - it can always wait until later.

Yes, the landline is my default phone. I have a mobile I use for emergencies but only give the number out when it’s essential as I rarely put it on. (I can imagine both DDs rolling their eyes at this).

Yes, you can make calls over WiFi that cost nothing using apps like WhatsApp? These calls can be to any number of people at the same time and to anywhere in the world. Mobile calls are not expensive.

I have lived in my flat for nearly 18 months now, and am only just beginning to really remember my landline number. Had my previous one in London for 46 years, so have found it difficult to learn a new one. My mobile nu. I have had for several years now, with several phones, and whenever someone asks my telephone no. it is that which comes immediately to mind.

I find the 'speaker' on with the mobile much clearer for me than the one of the landlines. So, that is the phone I use by choice, it is always very close to me, and also have a watch that vibrates when a message or phone call comes through ( if I do happen to have gone into a different room)/

Find it annoying that in order to get WiFi, I need also to pay for a landline. Never thought I would say this, but really do not need one any more.

If you have a good data signal you don't need a landline. I have a mobile with unlimited data with tethering, texts and calls. We have a mifi router for broadband instead of a landline.

We are very rural and mobile is not always available. Landline kept just in case but used often

Have landline but no mobile

had a landline because husband was sending faxes as part of a legal case, case resolved but we kept the phone as a back up and it's included free in our bundle, we both have mobiles we take everywhere with us and reception here is great (East London)

BlueBelle

You don’t use your mobile much for £6 a month pitt ?

Smarty gives you unlimited calls and texts for £5 a month. Minimum contract is £10 but the other £5 is for internet outside the house which I don't do.

My mobile only has a signal in the garden, so on wet days I wouldn't be making many calls! I think that communication access, WiFi and mobile signal,, is one of the really important divides between those of us in rural areas and those in towns who don't realise how lucky they are. But we have other advantages!

If you’ve got broadband I don’t think you necessarily have to have a good mobile signal to use a mobile phone. We have free wi-if calls with O2 so only need a landline for internet access. We’re in a rural area with, until very recently, poor mobile phone coverage. I would think other providers would do the same. The sound is so much better on the mobile especially when it’s on speaker. The landline phone is just gathering dust and I’m sorely tempted to chuck it in a cupboard. I’ve stopped nuisance and number withheld calls with BT’s Call Protect.

I have a crocheted bag with long string and I hang it round my neck and shove it under my jumper!

Reception here is awful so the landline is essential. I have cordless landlines handsets but we also have a "proper" old style phone for when the electricity goes off.

If I shoved my phone down my bra, it would end up in my knickers, I lack the endowment to keep it in place

Thanks all, an interesting split. My mobile is always with me in back pocket, on the extremely rare occasions when I’m not in jeans/shorts, I shove it down my bra. It’s reassuring to have it with me on lone journeys, in the car or on foot.

Dumped the landline years ago. I'm surprised at so many people are still on the old phone linked broadband! I guess we are lucky to have a full fibre connection. As to how do people contact us or how do we contact them if they don't have a mobile......I don't know anyone without a mobile! AND someone mentioned a £6 a month mobile bill as one that is probably not used often. I'm with Sky and my £6 a month bill gives me unlimited free calls and texts plus 2GB of data. Unlimited calls = no landline!

We have both and found having a landline invaluable.

We have both.
I prefer to make calls from the landline phone as there is no danger that it will run out of battery power like the mobile, especially if, like today, I am having a lovely long catch-up chat with a friend!

I always take my mobile phone out with me, and if I ever forget to take it I feel strangely vulnerable.

Supposing the car breaks down??

We still have a landline phone, only tend to use the mobile if we are out. I prefer speaking to peeps on the landline, particularly if its a long chat with family or close friends.

I am about to move to a new build where there will be no copper connection at all for an ordinary phone. Once the fibre to property is connected I will have to organise a digital phone as well as my mobile.

This may sound as if I know what I am talking about but I am just parroting really . I am hoping that all will become clear to me in the fullness of time.

Unfortunately it also means that my Lifeline pendant will not work.