House landline phone

[rmarion]

Has anyone discontinued their home phone landline service and just use your cell phone???

Any issues,
Pros, Cons,
Yes you did and now hate it?????

I'm getting NEW internet....thinking about bundling the package.....
Now thinking about canceling home service....
Maybe I need it for internet???.?? Dont know??..

Rick

 

[Albert]

Sometimes there is a discounted rate due to the bundle but as far as not having a landline I havnt had one in about 10 years we had one briefly for the bundle it was cheaper with the landline.

 

[HocusPocus]

No landline for the last 5 years and I don't miss it.

 

[240Hallett]

No landline… No regrets.

 

[Mandelon]

I tried to get my wife to cancel ours. Only about 3 people use it that I like to hear from. The rest are sales people, political ads and surveys. But with the bundle it is only like $2.00 a month.

 

[Bobby V]

Still have landline for 911 and ADT alarm. I could go WiFi on the alarm, but the landline is so cheap.

 

[Hallett_Whacker]

Everything is in a bundle with our landline, but we never use it anymore. My wife says it's cheaper this way.

 

[4Waters]

Pull you landline back to the basics use it for 911 purposes, if you register your cell phone with 911 with your home address then they will send 1st responders to the address listed unless you tell them different let the dispatcher ask you your location when you call on your cell (because there is no address registered with the number). My landline has no long distance no call waiting just basics so my kids can call 911 and they don't have to try to remember our address while under stress.

 

[sintax]

I moved mine to an Ooma VOIP service. It ends up being $12 a yea and you can move your existing number there i you want.

If you're a snowbird, you can simply take the Ooma device with you and you move your number with you.

 

[LHC Kirby]

My Cox bill and suddenlink are triple bundle (phone, cable & internet) both would cost more if I canceled the phone

 

[Done-it-again]

Yup about 9 yrs ago. Best thing ever. But now I get more crap calls on my cell lately than before.

We just pay little more for internet cause we don’t “bundle”.

 

[KENDOG689]

Not for 10yrs.

 

[lbhsbz]

I haven't had a land line in 10 years. We switched cable companies and it was in the bundle about 5 years ago, so I hooked it up...phone rang about 10 times / night with telemarketer/scam calls. That lasted about 1 night before we unplugged it.

I don't miss it.

 

[River Runnin]

Have a temp land line and whom ever had the number before must have been a real winner!...I hate it, you got the wrong f'n number!

otherwise went cell only in 2004!

 

[rvrrun]

Like most of the others, I haven't had a land line for years. The only negative was the pain in the ass and multiple calls it took to discontinue phone service. Almost everyone calls/texts me on my phone so I just needed to train my parents to call my cell. There are multiple cell phones in the house so I'm not overly concerned about making an emergency call. If there ever is a catastrophe disabling cell service, I'm trucking up to my parents and getting on the HAM.

The huge positive, is the lack of sales calls. Our land # was on the DNC list and would still ring non stop around dinner. My cell never gets a sales call, but my wife has started get them on her #.

 

[RitcheyRch]

We disconnected our landline many years ago and have not had any issues with only having cell phones.

 

[Danger Dave]

No landline… No regrets.

X2

 

[thedan]

Anther vote for Ooma. Cell service is spotty at my house.

 

[jones performance]

havent had a landline in about 18 years or so.

 

[pronstar]

If you need a “landline” just do VOIP.

Google Voice with an Obi Talk box let’s you use any house-type phone. It’s super easy/cheap and you can call anywhere for like a penny a minute.

Also has voicemail with transcription.


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[River Lynchmob]

Haven't had one in about 12 years.

 

[DILLIGAF]

get rid of it Rick. Cost of copper Lines and Maintaining them will only increase going forward.

 

[USMC2010]

We disconnected our landline a few years ago and run cell only. Our phones are connected to a Bluetooth system with 5 handsets throughout the house to be able to make/take a call.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

No landline for 10 years maybe more? Just Cell. Had a landline in a bundle and like others have said phone rang nonstop with people I didn't want to talk to telemarketers, family, survey takers. I unplugged it and kept paying for it until I moved and haven't had one since. Life is better without a tether...

 

[CJ_Donahue]

My last landline was in 2000. I had a bundle that included a phone line (It was cheaper to have it and not use it) but I never even had a phone to plug into the land line. I bet I now know less people with land lines than without.

 

[COCA COLA COWBOY]

No landline for about 10 years. Never had an issue.

 

[Big B Hova]

Wtf is a land line?

 

[Riverbottom]

Still have a land line, cell service sucks at our house. I have to go outside and stand in the right spot or I loose the signal.

 

[rmarion]

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

Were canceling our landline... (32 year number...sort of sad)

Bundle Cable/internet and save $60 month total....

Going with Spectrum....

 

[Willie B]

...Canceled my mothers landline same phone number from 1950 to 2013...

 

[crzy2bealive]

Haven't had one in years

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[CoolCruzin]

We don’t have a land line .
Nobody at the house have missed it.
Been about 6 years
We all have cell phones

 

[rrrr]

My wife won't let me shut off the land line. It's a complete waste of money IMO.

 

[Carlson-jet]

A land line is just that. Not voip. It is a real hardline copper wire coming into your old school phone that requires no outside source of electricity. If one does not have that then it is no longer a "Land line". ATT shut me down with literal threats and just cut it off. Fuck them. I no longer have a land line.

 

[Big B Hova]

You have to watch out a lot of the new land lines are digital phone lines and won't work in a power outage. Only a true landline with a corded phone will work

 

[Bpracing1127]

I have the landline but it’s not even connected to a phone. Shit I don’t even know the number

 

[LASINC]

No land line for telephones either. The only thing connected to the phone jack is the internet modem. That's it. It might have an actual number but I don't know what it is. Havent needed a land line phone for the past 10yr too.

 

[530RL]

Cox throws one land line in with Gigablast internet for 4.99 a month for emergency purposes and alarm. You get up to 60 minutes a month.

Rest of them we disconnected.

Police charge 100 bucks if the alarm company calls them and there is no burglar, so the alarm company just calls our mobile numbers now.

 

[pronstar]

My wife won't let me shut off the land line. It's a complete waste of money IMO.

Way back in the day, my wife was the same.

We had a cordless phone, I took the batteries out.

Months later I brought the landline up in conversation. She insisted we still needed it, but agreed to get rid of it when I revealed it hadn’t had a battery for 6 months [emoji4]


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[SKIDMARC]

I went through the same situation recently when we bought our new house. Wanted to cancel the landline but the wife always wants to keep for emergencies.

Then the wife reminded me of a situation about 8 months earlier when we had a power outage and our cell phones died.

I hate it when she is right, plus everything was bundled so didn't matter much.

 

[mesquito_creek]

No land line for over 15 years and I have physically tore all evidence and equipment associated with it off it off the side of the house etc....

 

[pronstar]

I went through the same situation recently when we bought our new house. Wanted to cancel the landline but the wife always wants to keep for emergencies.

Then the wife reminded me of a situation about 8 months earlier when we had a power outage and our cell phones died.

I hate it when she is right, plus everything was bundled so didn't matter much.

Why would your cell phone die when the power to your house goes out?


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[SKIDMARC]

Why would your cell phone die when the power to your house goes out?


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LOL, The power went out at our house. At the time of the power outage our cell phones were low in battery life. So they eventually died due to not having a way to charge them.