Do you use your landline?

People in the village mostly use landlines to talk amongst ourselves. It's a lot easier to remember a 6 digit number than however many digits a mobile comes with these days!

I have a landline which rarely works whenever it rains (old wiring).
I do however have a working mobile phone, which has What's App plus text services on it.
I have 2 email addresses and
I have my home address, should anyone wish to send me snail mail.
Despite this, there are people who, after trying my landline, then give-up and through a 3rd party I hear they have been trying to get hold of me.
Obviously not trying hard enough!

My Mother is the only caller on our landline. If it is not her it will usually be a scam call.

I use landline for most calls, only friends and family have my mobile and essential people, I hate being called when I’m out and about with rubbish calls.

Never use the landline for outgoing calls. Still know a few Luddites who insist on calling in on landline.

I use my landline about 95% of the time. I don't use an answerphone as I don't want the bother of having to ring people back. I get almost no scam calls on it. I do ring mobile numbers sometimes when there's no alternative but would prefer not to. I like having a landline and can't see me changing that.

My sister and I ring each other a couple of times a week and always use our landlines. It is clearer and easier to hold and ringing her land line means I know she is home. If I ring her mobile she could be at the shops or out and about. I would miss the land line.

I always give my landline number as a contact number because I have a call blocking system on it and so I don't get the scam calls that are prevalent.
I don't have a problem with the reception for incoming or outgoing calls on my landline.

Use the landline all the time, very poor mobile signal. My mobile gets used mostly for taking photographs.

I rarely use the mobile but do not listen to recorded messages that come on the landline assuming they are scams.. However yesterday I found out that someone had got access to my bank account and tried to buy an Apple machine for £2000 ... My bank had sent me a warning but I had deleted it thinking it was not genuine. Luckily my bank was on the ball and stopped my card anyway. So now I will listen to recorded messages until I know that they are not genuine. Be warned!

Yes, the voice and reception is much clearer. As cossybabe has already mentioned. Mobile is good for short sharp information but to sit and have a comfortable conversation you cannot beat the landline.

Always as though I have a mobile it is usually not charged or I can't find it. I only have a mobile for banking and I hate them.

Yes, we use ours quite a bit as the mobile reception is so bad in our area.

Bit rude about being called a Luddite, most of us have both nowadays, so do embrace technology. Luddite caller do you have an electric car, do you have pv and/or solar panels?

No it's unplugged but we have to have one because of the Virgin deal. Also it's silly money just to make a call.

Our landline contract gives us broadband but not free calls. So we have it plugged in with the ansafone on. Anyone calling the landline can leave a message ( scammers ring off!) and we can return calls on our mobiles. Simples!

I don't use it much for calling but all the time for incoming calls, partly because I guard my mobile number with my life!

It also has the enormous advantage in that it intercepts calls made from numbers that are not in my contacts list and asks who is calling; It then phones me and lets me hear what the person says, after which I can choose to accept or reject the call. When I check the calls list, nearly every day there are calls from unknown numbers that I haven't been bothered with because presumably the caller has hung up when asked for information!

I use my landline all the time. I don't have a mobile phone. I can't see to use one but I do have s tablet.

Don't have a landline. We just use mobiles.

Mobile signal at home is very temperamental having to move from front to back and upstairs, even down to bottom of garden. If any visitors get a call they are amazed what you have you have to do. Also DH is hearing impaired, does have cochlear implant but even with that mobile phones are not good, and he has a very upmarket model to try to facilitate. Yes we use the landline, much much better for hearing dificulties especially in poor signal areas. My AC know if they want to have any contact with their father to use landline, email or text.

I left my mobile at my daughters so the landline was useful to call her to hang on to it for me. Plus I have friends who don't like using mobiles and only have basic models so like the landline.

I rarely use the landline as I have to pay for calls while my mobile calls are included in my contract. My MiL calls my landline as she uses hers and if she calls my mobile it costs more. Unfortunately my landline phone in the living room is cordless and no-longer lolds charge well so we always get cut off unless I go into the kitchen and transfer to the corded one. I have told her this but she still does it, so I have to call her back on my mobile when the phone dies! Most of the calls on the landline are unwanted so sometimes I ignore it. Often when I've missed a call I ring back with my mobile usingthe number from 1471 and find that 'the number has been dialed incorrectly' clearly all scams!

We don’t get a radio or tv signal in our house so have to have a SKY dish and use wireless radio. The mobile signal is poor as well so we use the landline. We do get a lot of scammers but my husband but rabbits on at them in Welsh and the line goes dead for some reason! Our house is surrounded on 3 sides by a church, old brewery and a 13th century pub so very thick walls everywhere.

My mobile is always kept in my handbag and so will often be in another room. I certainly don't hear it then, so landline is only sure way of phoning me. How do others cope with this problem?

I receive calls on my landline, mostly from my ‘elderly’ friends who won’t use my mobile number, but I never make calls on it.