Do you still have a landline?

I got one in my new build house and got a digital phone in the living room for incoming calls from elderly relatives who don’t have mobile phones. If mobile keeps cutting out I suggest caller calls landline.
I don’t take mobile into my bedroom so I got a connector so I have an old landline phone in my bedroom in case I need to call 999 in the night.

DH decided we didn’t need our landline anymore, so it was disconnected when we changed our broadband provider mid January.

First Monday without it, DH and DD both had to go into work, I was getting sorted to go to the gym. I knew I had put my mobile on the kitchen island, but it wasn’t there. Normally would ring it from the landline to find it, couldn’t do that, couldn’t ring DD or DH, felt rather isolated.

Started emailing them both from laptop, when DD came bowling in saying either DH or her had picked my phone up accidentally and I shouldn’t leave it laying around. I pointed out that it was my kitchen, and didn’t count putting it where I could hear it as laying about

I guess this will be the first of many instances…

Jaxjacky

If you have a problem holding a mobile for any length of time you can rest it down and use it on speaker, that might be easier.

Or use earphones like those people who appear to be walking around and talking to nobody!

If you have a problem holding a mobile for any length of time you can rest it down and use it on speaker, that might be easier.

We still keep our landline as mobile signal is patchy in old stone house Signal snd internet very variable in general especially during holiday season

We kept ours for longer than we should have because we’d two elderly friends who always rang us on it. But it’s gone now, we ring them instead, and I really can’t say I miss the nuisance calls (we never used to answer them, but the interruptions were annoying).

I disconnected mine a couple of years ago due to the amount of rubbish i calls i was getting . People ringing to tell .me I've won £1M but I have to send the £25 to release it etc. Load of twaddle.. I just use my .mobile now. Cheaper too.

They did this with mine, BUT I apparently HAVE to keep paying for the line even though I have never ever actually made a call from it ( couldn't afford an actual phone) In order to keep my internet ( the reason I have a landline!_)

That sounds good Pittcity - I haven’t got that facility on my hearing aids, maybe cause they’re just NHS ones ?
I still can’t find my phone by ringing it though as it’s only ringing out in my ears not on the phone.

My Mum has Bluetooth hearing aids and just has to tap a button on the side to answer a call or hang up. Works as long as her phone is somewhere nearby.

I still have my landline, mobile reception is appalling so I'd be lost without the landline.

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.

Haha - I had the same problem as you when I first got hearing aids. Yes it is brilliant that the conversation comes from your mobile directly to your ears but the trouble starts when you’ve forgotten where you’ve put your phone as it’s ringing your ears so you’ve no way of locating it. 🫣.
The way to stop this is happening is to turn off the Bluetooth on your phone (or the hearing aid app) but you’ve got to find your phone to do this. 🤣. I’ve found the last resort is to pull out the switch on your hearing aids which deactivates the batteries, turning them off.
By this time of course the caller has long gone.

Here in Germany, our landline comes with a package deal along with the television. I still work 20 hours per week, and use this for work related calls, and all doctors. I do not want my employer to think I am available 24/7. In fact, I rarely use my cell phone, as hubby loves chatting all day long. So, everyone has heard all the news and happenings from him.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.