Do you use your landline?

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We have a landline installed, but no phone connected to it receive calls, it's purely there for a better internet service, due to the poor coverage by providers, and the amount of households and companies in the area trying to use it at peak times.

We don't have a landline, haven't had one in years (more than a decade). We have Virgin fibre optic broadband which does not require a phone line, and both have high end mobile phones. No idea why anyone would want a landline in the 21st century, barring having to have it for interest purposes.

Not sure what my last sentence meant there lol - I blame predictive text. No idea why anyone would want a landline in the 21st century, barring having it for internet purposes - or of course living in an area with poor mobile reception

Don’t like mobiles find them difficult for hearing and they often cut out.Also difficult to keep in place on the ear.

I do not have a mobile. I am housebound and have outlived my friends so don’t make or receive many calls. I have BT basic and call blocking.

We have a landline and wouldn't be without it. In the case of long electricity cuts, which we had in our area a few years ago, a landline was a Godsend. Also we still keep an old "plug-in" landline phone, because when there are electricity cuts, the "wireless" landline phones cease to work. DH & I both have smartphones but we use the landline a lot, including for long family calls. Our smartphones aren't always switched-on (we aren't slaves to them, unlike many smartphone owners) so for us the landline makes life easier.

Have it for incoming calls only so that relatives with no mobile phone contracts can use it.

We only ever get scam calls on the landline Had another this morning about our fault on the server lol

All the time. I have a mobile, a basic small one, but I hate the things, so it lives in a cupboard, I don`t even know the number.

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If you have a good 4g signal where you live, you can have broadband without a landline, we do!

Tell me more about this please as I was always told you need the landline for internet

You can have a mifi router which picks up the 4g signal and rebroadcast it as a Wi-Fi signal. Ours costs £20 a month for unlimited internet. You just plug it in and away you go. You can even take it away with you to have you own Wi-Fi, which we do in the campervan.

If our landlines rings we all look at each other and say who is that. We don't answer it. Mobile use for everything

I don't see the point of using a mobile phone at home. The landline is far more reliable.

If we don't recognise the number we don't pick up. Anyone who really wants to tell us or ask us something will leave a message on the integrated answering machine. Scam callers never do.

We only get a couple of unwanted calls a week.