Landlines- do you still have one?

Yes we still have a landline thank goodness. My parents prefer to use their landline so it makes it easier to phone them. Also, the mobile phone reception where I live is abysmal. We have to stand outside the house in the (sometimes) freezing cold or rain to have any hope of talking on the phone.

If your mobile phone signal in your house is poor, check your mobile phone settings to see if you have WiFi calling available. With WiFi calling enabled, you can make/receive a mobile phone call using your home WiFi - no need to go out and stand in the rain to make a mobile phone call.

butterandjam

Yes we have a landline ( Only family and our GP call my mobile)

Telephone Preference Service is free and it works. We very, very rarely get spam calls.

www.tpsonline.org.uk/

Thanks very much for the link butterandjam.
I've just registered as I'm fed up with nuisance calls on my landline.

ViceVersa

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.

Will have to check that aspect out later.

What would normally take "one and done" visit has followed the usual pace in this area. That means I've had three visits to date and anticipate one or two more to do that full "one visit worth" of setting the phone up.

It has been a right palaver - which included another customer being allowed to butt into my turn in a local phoneshop when I was in the middle of getting sorted out with it. Followed by us resuming "my turn" only to find the man who butted in had only gone and stolen my darn phone whilst he was doing so and the only differnence between myself and the shop guy on that was whether he'd done it deliberately (my verdict) or was as "thick as two short planks - estimate 60 IQ" (shop guy's verdict) and I had to spend some extra time sitting there and being very "firm" I was going nowhere until he got my phone back.....which he did eventually.

Am trying not to think just how long before my "one and done - and certainly no more than 30 minutes" visit it should have taken will actually conclude with me being fully sorted.

Yes, we still have a landline We live in the country so mobile reception is not 100%reliable. If we get a power cut, or internet down, the landline still works. Needed it to call an ambulance a couple of years ago when my mobile was out of action.

Missedout

If your mobile phone signal in your house is poor, check your mobile phone settings to see if you have WiFi calling available. With WiFi calling enabled, you can make/receive a mobile phone call using your home WiFi - no need to go out and stand in the rain to make a mobile phone call.

Thanks Missedout, I'll try that.