Do you still have a landline?

I only use my landline. It seems more reliable, somehow.

I got rid of mine about six months ago for the same reason. I didn't really want to buy new phones. I haven't missed it. The only thing I had to remember to do was to remove the landline number from all the different web sites I was signed up to. Utilities, shopping, Streaming Apps etc. All my friends and relatives had already stopped using it anyway. Only my granddaughter who says I don't always answer my mobile. Its because its either upstairs and I'm down on downstairs and I'm up.

My sister has to go down her garden and stand on a rather wobbly dry stone wall to get a decent mobile ssignal. Consequently she prefers me to call her on her landline as she says its warmer, dryer, and less likely to result in broken bones.

I would not want to be without our landline. I have a hearing loss and wear hearing aids. I often struggle to hear on a mobile. I have regular phone calls with a friend who lives far away from me and these calls often last about an hour. I cannot imagine trying to do this on a mobile. I find mobile phones confusing with all the options (texts, whatsApp etc) and can never find a darned thing on them. I came to technology too late in life.....

Yes, but no call package now, so use my mobile to make calls.

I can’t remember the last time I had a phone line. I use my smart phone for keeping in touch and so much more. I agree that for longer calls it’s easier to use it hands free.

We still have a landline but very rarely use it. Mostly incoming calls from scammers these days.

I only have a couple of people who ever ring my landline and I don't use it as I have to pay for the calls, my mobile calls being included in my contract. Most calls are ones I'd rather not receive so I shall probably give it up when they convert ours.
My DD did ring it one night as I wasn't answering my mobile. I'd gone out without it and she was really worried when it got late, but it was during the pandemic and I went shopping very late in the evening to avoid the crowds and queues! I came back to about 20 missed calls!

Yes. It's a talking one. Though I tend to use my mobile most of the time.

Dread losing landline as mobile signal is not great as live in the sticks. Even when signal is OK seem to hear better on the landline so always use that as first choice.

i have always had a landline, my mobile is only used if i am outside, due to health issues my son knows if i don't answer my house phone then he tracks my mobile.

winterwhite

It ought to be worth someone’s while to work on improving reception on mobile phones if that’s the expression I need for so many of us finding it hard to hear on our mobiles at home.

Another disadvantage then of being forced into using mobiles.

My father was about 70% deaf for years come the end and they just swopped their landline phone to one that catered for that. Job done pretty much...

It ought to be worth someone’s while to work on improving reception on mobile phones if that’s the expression I need for so many of us finding it hard to hear on our mobiles at home.

LilyoftheValley

I have one but, since leaving Sky, have not found a reasonable provider. Does anyone know of reasonable deals, please? Thank you.

I use Utility Warehouse - for both fuel and landline telephone/broadband. For £180 a month I get unlimited usage of phone/broadband and that's the (gas central heating) system fuel usage for a 2 bedroom detached house. There's a limit on how many "international" calls are included in that - but I've not hit it yet. I use what fuel I decide I need to and expect a warm house for that.

They've not hassled me - either at the start or subsequently - to swop to a smart meter or stop using my landline phone.

we changed over top BT two years ago and now have two digital phones for digital calls. BT gave us these for free at the time, was a special offer. As we are on UC we get our broadband for £15 for the month and this gives us unlimited calls any time to landlines and mobiles for free. It is handy for incoming calls and I also use it for the odd outgoing call if I know I am due an incoming call on my mobile.
No use in a power cut as your broadband goes down so we also have mobiles.

No surplus to requirements now wish I'd done it years ago.

We still have a landline, works well as the signal doesn't come and (often!) go as it does with some networks.

It also has a working answerphone -- nobody has EVER listened to a message left on a mobile when I've tried!

Oh, and for the people speaking about 'hands free' or 'put it on speaker' -- I tell people NOT to do that, if I'm on a call, as they have that wildly irritating echoey sound as if they're in a goldfish bowl?!

I have one but, since leaving Sky, have not found a reasonable provider. Does anyone know of reasonable deals, please? Thank you.

Yes, I still have a landline, I prefer it for making calls . My mobile ring never stays on long enough for me to answer it!

still got my landline , mobile is ok for texts,but I hate using it to talk as I sometimes can't hear what the caller is saying, I only got my first mobile when I was driving incase the car broke down...

Thanks Aldom and *CariadAgain" I think you are right.

I got rid of my landline when I moved house a couple of years ago.

For emergencies, I keep a 2nd, cheap, mobile in the house, topped up with 15 a month and charged every few days. It's a lot cheaper than a landline.

Madmeg I too have synced hearing aids. To unsync go into settings. Select... Device connectivity then Bluetooth. Turn off Bluetooth.

Cariad the existing analogue phone network is very old, difficult and expensive to maintain,
We live in a digital world, companies have to move on, as do we, the benefits generally outweigh any negatives.

Madmeg

All my life I have tried to keep up with changes. We were the first people I know to have a computer, a video recorder, a mobile phone. My DH worked all his life in technology areas. We both worked in Universities who were quick to use new technology.

But now we struggle with all of it. Every time (exaggeration I know) I switch the laptop on something has changed. Yesterday it told me I had no people in my mail address book - it took me four hours to find them. Our Smart TV has changed the way we have to use it (no notice from anyone). I recently got hearing aids and the technician proudly showed me the benefits of "linking" them to my mobile phone. Now I realise that if I don't have them in I can't hear it ringing - and of course neither can my DH. And when I DO have them in, I have no means of telling where the damn phone is cos it sounds as if it is inside my head! I can't work out how to switch the facility off either. The booklet doesn't tell me such a minor detail. What happens if I need a new phone?

I am losing the will to live with all this new stuff.

By now I've come to the conclusion that there are two reasons and only those two reasons why things keep getting "updated"....

1. So some people can make money by selling us "updated" stuff we neither need nor want.

2. For that group of people that have an ego motive for wanting to always "have/do the latest thing" - because they're "Special" in their opinion.

Personally - I want to know what way changes of anything will make my life easier/more enjoyable/etc and I just don't see that benefit with much of it.

Stuff like (conventional) central heating, landline phones, reasonable level tv's, etc have made our lives easier. But basically it feels to me like "improvements" stopped some point in the 1990's and after that much of it is down to someone wanting money and/or status for themselves and they don't really care about whether our lives are easier or harder as a result of it.