Do you use your landline?

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.

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

@Dollypollylolly

Brahumbug

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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I prefer to use the landline, using the mobile when necessary. As a work from home as a music teacher, l would rather pupils' parents used this number, although we tend to email each other more now, as l don't want all and sundry having my mobile number. I want some autonomy and privacy.

I still use a landline phone. I have a mobile too - but can't use it outdoors, as I'm partially sighted and need to wear my reading glasses to see it (or even find it!). I get more scam calls on my mobile - but these are flagged up as such (Potential Fraud etc.) The Landline also has Call Minder - so callers have to say who they are, and some people just don't like that, and put the phone down!

Katek gives a list of likely failures in digital communications, which are nort all that infrequent. When I phone on a landline and the other end uses a mobile phone it is difficult to hear and often there are interferences especially if that person is moving about

The mobile signal isn't great where we live so we use the landline a lot - yes we get sales and scam calls but just hang up

Mobile phone only, both of us.

Yes,living away from family.l pay £5 a month gives me unlimited talk time.l
I get a monthly bill one call to my parents costs me between 8- 10 pounds x that by twice a week a massive saving, without my daughters,son, friends and elderly aunts all 50 to 60 mins a time.So yes l do.

Only have landline for internet the actual phone is in bottom of the drawer never been plugged in.

Yes , we still have our landline

I am in the minority as I don't have a smartphone. I have a very basic phone for emergencies and it is switched off most of the time. I only use the land line. Even if I had a smartphone I would only use my land line. I don't understand the obsession with smart phones, I hate to see mothers on the bus texting and ignoring their children.

Meant to add on the existing poles.

I don't have a landline; I had one installed but it was so poor the router couldn't connect.
I had it removed and got £200 compensation.
I have to use the hotspot on my mobile phone to get internet access.
I wish that phone companies would use some of their huge advertising budgets to provide a stable phone signal for those of us who rely on phone masts.
Fibre broadband is still a dream for us living in rural areas.
Our landline comes accross fields on a single overhead wire.
Why can't they replace the old copper overhead wire with a a fibre cable?

Caro57

We get calls on it and have CallGuardian on it which has, pretty much, got rid of all cold calls - wonderful!

Isn't it just Caro! Can't remember the last time one got through. Actually I can, but it was only because I accepted it because I didn't catch the garbled message and we were waiting on a call from a company not in our phone book.