Landlines

[Simster]

With mobile phones now so obviously the main method of contact these days, it got me wondering whether or not the majority of people still have landlines.

We hope to move house this year, and I think we have made the decision to bin our landline.

Have YOU still got your landline?

Poll to follow...

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The only time I think I use the landline is to ring the take-away, so they already know the address.

Must say, I thought the thread title was landmines though.

 

[Rugrat]

We are moving too and I want to bin the landline but haven't weighed up the cost yet, rarely use data on mobile so assume I'll need to upgrade package significantly

More importantly I can't get my head round what I might lose by not having landline/broadband

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

With most broadband providers you'll have to pay a line rental to get a physical broadband service. There are some exceptions - we're about to get Gigaclear in our village and that will be fibre too house and no phone needed - we'll probably take an IP phone service.

 

[StonehamPark]

I pay for the Virgin Media bundle which includes the line-rental charges.

The phone has never been plugged in though and only use the mobile.

 

[halbpro]

I pay for the Virgin Media bundle which includes the line-rental charges.

The phone has never been plugged in though and only use the mobile.

This is exactly the situation I'm in.

 

[spence]

I pay for the Virgin Media bundle which includes the line-rental charges.

The phone has never been plugged in though and only use the mobile.

You don't need a landline for Virgin if you only want tv and Broadband.

 

[happypig]

Got both but I need the landline so I can get fibre broadband for free as a perk of working for BT.
I never give out the landline number though, I either give my mobile number or a SIP number which goes straight to voicemail.

Anyone who's thinking of ditching it and going for mobile only, get a PAYG sim and try mobile data for a month before you do.

 

[Trufflehound]

Semaphore flags. Bit of a late adopter, me.

Although I've heard good things about this new fangled telegraph. May have to check it out.

 

[Easy 10]

We have a landline but only for the interbob broadband. I never use it - in fact I never even get up and answer it any more because 99% of the time it'll be about PP bloody I or whether I've had an accident in the last 5 years. So I just let it ring.

Anyone who I'm bothered about talking with has my mobile.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Utterly pointless IMHO.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

We've got a land line but that is mainly because we need one for our broadband. When I lived in Brighton I got rid of my land line as I didn't need one with Virgin's Fibre Broadband at the time.

 

[StonehamPark]

You don't need a landline for Virgin if you only want tv and Broadband.

Really?
I'll have to look into that.

 

[surrey jim]

I pay for the Virgin Media bundle which includes the line-rental charges.

The phone has never been plugged in though and only use the mobile.

prety much this.

 

[beorhthelm]

to summerise the poll, if you have broadband (ie just about everyone who's going to be on NSC), you need a landline. you still need the connection and we dont have naked DSL as they call it. those with Virgin are still paying for the connection in some way btw. only way to avoid landline is to go 3G/4G but the cost of all you can eat with tethering contract, if they still exist, are £35+ iirc (though you probably get a phone in there).

 

[Rugrat]

only way to avoid landline is to go 3G/4G but the cost of all you can eat with tethering contract, if they still exist, are £35+ iirc (though you probably get a phone in there).

That's the way I was thinking of going and if it's £35 then it sounds like a good deal to me.

Prob is I don't think 3G is fast enough for some of the chunkier stuff and no 4G where I am

 

[father_and_son]

Still have landline, but only because its part of the TV/Broadband package. There are only two people who ring it... father-in-law and mother-in-law... but otherwise unused.

Occasionally I contemplate attaching a fax machine to the line to force them into the 80's and at least vaguely towards the 21st century!



At my old flat, I did ditch broadband (and the phone) for a while and had all-you-can-eat, sim-only contract with 3 instead. Good enough for basic surfing, but not really a suitable alternative to a decent broadband unless you have 4G coverage.

 

[jackanada]

For a while I had a nice neighbour who I bought a bottle of wine each month on return for the Wi-Fi password. Sadly new neighbours are all very anti such arrangements so I now have my own broadband.
I think most of us see having a landline as one of those annoying "hidden" costs like when budget airlines wouldn't include taxes in headline amount.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Have to have a landline living in Wales, mobile only works when standing on windowsill in lounge.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Got both,but would dump the landline ASAP if i could. Like so many here all mobile traffic.