Landlines- do you still have one?

I let my landline go when negotiating a better broadband deal. I leave my mobile on overnight because I want the idea my adult children or other family couldn’t get hold of me in an emergency

CariadAgain

Yep.....still got one and planning on keeping it.

I've bought a Chatsie phone recently - which is supposed to be idiot-proof - but it's not "up and running" yet - as I've got a phoneshop guy to tell me some of the basics and I've got to go back for him to set up Facebook and Gmail on it (just in case) and I will only be using it for phonecalls/texts. It's taken longer than anticipated to date to get that dealt with - as another customer was allowed to butt in on my visit and stole my phone!!! (To which I threw 40 fits obviously - and managed to get it back again - so thats delayed things).

I can and do have great long phonecalls on my landline with farflung friends and it doesnt cost me much extra at all to have those phonecalls chucked in - whenever I please/for however long I please (even to Southern Ireland - where I have a friend I exchange calls with at regular intervals and we spend an hour or two on the phone indulging in the craic).

The mobile I've just bought is PAYG and it's there just for an emergency phone only purposes - eg if I'm stuck somewhere in the countryside with the appalling bus service here and I decide to ring for the taxi firm I use to come and fetch me. It would be very expensive to actually use it to make calls per se on as a regular thing.

Get WhatsApp on your new Chatsie phone and your calls will be free.

Don’t understand

I am also PAYG - so I still have my landline.
I’ve asked this a couple of times but still understand how do you get an internet connection without a landline ?

Still got ours.

I rarely have my mobile phone on!

Yep.....still got one and planning on keeping it.

I've bought a Chatsie phone recently - which is supposed to be idiot-proof - but it's not "up and running" yet - as I've got a phoneshop guy to tell me some of the basics and I've got to go back for him to set up Facebook and Gmail on it (just in case) and I will only be using it for phonecalls/texts. It's taken longer than anticipated to date to get that dealt with - as another customer was allowed to butt in on my visit and stole my phone!!! (To which I threw 40 fits obviously - and managed to get it back again - so thats delayed things).

I can and do have great long phonecalls on my landline with farflung friends and it doesnt cost me much extra at all to have those phonecalls chucked in - whenever I please/for however long I please (even to Southern Ireland - where I have a friend I exchange calls with at regular intervals and we spend an hour or two on the phone indulging in the craic).

The mobile I've just bought is PAYG and it's there just for an emergency phone only purposes - eg if I'm stuck somewhere in the countryside with the appalling bus service here and I decide to ring for the taxi firm I use to come and fetch me. It would be very expensive to actually use it to make calls per se on as a regular thing.

Yes we have a landline and I don’t want to lose it. I have a mobile but rarely use it, never have it on at home and only give my number out when there’s no other option. DH has his mobile on all the time but he doesn’t get many calls on it.

We do, we've had the digital one 14 months now and only my mum & my son have ever used it. It's a new number, maybe that's why we never get unwanted callers (as yet).
We need it because we don't monitor our mobiles as religiously as perhaps we should, so urgent communications are better by landline.

We still have one, but although we get a few calls on it (mainly cold sellers or scammers), the last time someone asked me for the number I could no longer remember it!

I have a landline with the same number I was issued 48 years ago. I don't have a mobile, so it's useful.

I have a land line but no-one rings it and I don't use it. I'm contemplating getting rid of it.

Greenfinch

I am in exactly the same position as the OP and echo her sentiments. We have to pay £3 a quarter for a landline we don’t use and a certain amount for the messaging facility that nobody ever uses now. I think we will have it removed when our current contract expires. Having said that my mobile is Pay as you Go and calls are very expensive and so have to be made on DH’s phone. Not ideal!

We use WhatsApp and calls are free, even international ones

I’ve still got a landline, one of my daughters rings it regularly and a friend rings me on it, mobile reception isn’t brilliant in my living room. I also use it if I have a problem with the mobile.

Yes, we were upgraded but kept the landline as we are quite rural.

I still have a landline and I often have t ring abroad. Its much clerer than the mobile. I was speaking to the USA a couple of days ago and the recipient sounded like she was in the next room and remarked how clear the line was. Ive got a few handsets dotted around the house.

I am in exactly the same position as the OP and echo her sentiments. We have to pay £3 a quarter for a landline we don’t use and a certain amount for the messaging facility that nobody ever uses now. I think we will have it removed when our current contract expires. Having said that my mobile is Pay as you Go and calls are very expensive and so have to be made on DH’s phone. Not ideal!

I made sure my mum kept hers as she’s always loosing her mobile, at least I can get through to her

😔 Harris27

We do but only my Dsis, rings me on it, but I don't get unwanted calls as our phone has the call minder facility.

Mine sits alongside the telly. No one rings and I very rarely answer it when I know it’s definitely a cold call. I kept it for my brother ringing me . He died last year and I still watch it around 6 pm on a Sunday when he’d ring me.

I got rid of mine 5yrs ago don't miss it at all.

Got rid of mine a few years back, not missed it at all.

Did away with ours the last time I renewed my Plusnet BB, only had a couple people who called on it (if a name didn't appear we never answered cold callers) and they now call the mobiles. Haven't missed it.

We gave ours up when we had full fibre installed.

I was reluctant to, but in all honesty, haven’t missed it.

Far prefer using the landline. Thought they were going to be installed differently (or something), not abolished.