Do you still have a landline?

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.....

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 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.

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

Yes have to have it for virgin broadband.

We do occasionally use it when we can’t. Get phone signal.

And my friend prefers to phone me on it because it costs her. More to phone my mobile from her landline.

Some of us are still,old fashioned.

I wouldn't have minded keeping our landline as backup but it added a significant cost to our broadband fees and we hadn't used it in years. It represented a large waste of money

CariadAgain
improvements stopped some time in the 90s
Ahh, the decade when the microchip came to the market.
I doubt you can understand how revolutionary that was?
Practically everything you’re using is down to that wonderful piece of kit no bigger than your fingernail.
But you carry on believing that.

Recently, I altered my contract with EE when the previous contract expired. I do still have a landline, but the charge for making calls is high. Receiving calls is free, so if the mobile signal is wobbly (normal at my location), I ask the person to ring the landline.
WhatsApp calls are better!

Happy without a landline, in fact I think I last held a ‘proper phone’ over 5 years ago!

Just got rid of ours! One less thing to worry about%!

As a child in the 50's, I remember answering my grandmother's landline phone (I still remember her telephone number). Basically, the same analogue technology (using copper wires, which also carry power to maintain a phone call to the house) has not changed. It is has become more complex and difficult to maintain, and a bit like trying to keep a vintage/classic car running in modern traffic, the telecoms systems, infrastructure and engineers have all moved on.

I recently upgraded from the old copper line to full fibre to the home. I have kept my landline (two new handsets, one upstairs, the other downstairs) too. Both DH and I also have modern mobiles. I have a smartwatch that works with my mobile (no need to carry the mobile around the house).

We receive many landline calls and feel we would cut off many of our callers if we opted for mobiles only.

If you change to VOIP with a new router/hub, you won't need to change your old landline handsets. However, if they are currently wired and plugged into a socket, you will need to plug each one directly into a Digital Voice Adapter (DVA - one DVA to each handset) which will need to be in a power socket. Each DVA will need to be paired with your router before moving them close to your handset. Your telecoms provider should provide you with additional DVAs if you need them.

I find mobile phones are very badly designed and for longer calls I get cramp and for all calls I find I keep dropping my smart phone. Because my hand spasms.

I need to use a proper rounded phone like a landline phone to stop my hand and arm seizing up.

knspol

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.

Rural living is not at all compatible with mobile phones. I don't care much as I'd rather brief emails, I dislike speaking on the phone.

yes cannot use a mobile and here has been digital since 2018

We have a land line as a mobile signal is not very good. The Openreach engineer could only get a signal outside. If my mobile rings indoors I can only hear it in the room it is in and have no pockets large enough to carry a phone around. They will have to put a big aerial up and provide boosters in the house if they want us to go digital. Along our driveway there are several little posts with black and yellow plastic covers which mark repairs in our line. Maybe we should get some signal flares.

MilestOne

I use this cross body mobile phone pouch when I move around the house. Mine came from Seasalt. I expect you can buy something similar elsewhere.