Finally dropped the landline

[CincyDave]

We only kept a landline because DW's father would call on it. He's passed on and I finally convinced DW to drop it. We literally got nothing but junk calls on it. Guessing we were one of the last holdouts. Curious if anyone else (with cell service in your area) still has a traditional land line.

 

[MarieIG]

We still have a land line.

 

[disneysteve]

We still have a land line for exactly the same reason you did. My mom calls on it. We're trying to "train" her to call our cell phones but sometimes she forgets (she is 93 after all). Once she is gone, we will drop it as it serves absolutely no other purpose.

 

[Souschef]

WE still have a landline for convenience. We have cordless phones with 2 extensions.

One is in the living room, the other in the master bathroom. It has a call screening function,and voicemail. We get many "Call from Unavailable" calls, and we just let it ring.
We both have smartphones, also. I have mine set up with a Wyze camera at our other house with a motion sensor that chimes.

 

[COcheesehead]

I honestly can’t remember when we last had a landline. Maybe 15 years ago?

 

[Romer]

We still have one

 

[easysurfer]

I use Ooma as my "landline".

I know technically it isn't a landline but does a good job pretending as one. I like having the feel of a cordless phone pressed on my face rather than a flat smartphone, among other reasons.

 

[calmloki]

We had an AT&T landline till 2010. Got irked by the costs vs. new subscriber costs and went with Ooma VOIP, keeping our original landline # and the plug in phones in our house. Saved literally thousands vs. AT&T since then. With some regrets we are probably dropping our $128 annual Ooma subscription next year. We've just been giving out our cell numbers for the last 4-5 years and we no longer get many calls from anyone we want to hear from on the old home number. Cell phones only - dragged inexorably by progress.

 

[REWahoo]

Dropped ours in January, 2005.

 

[Midpack]

I know we dropped our landline before 2011, not sure how much before that…

 

[Dawg52]

I have one friend who still has a landline. He doesn't have a cell phone although his wife has one. He was extremely smart in college and was an engineer with Chevron his entire career. He just doesn't care to be connected these days.

 

[Montecfo]

We still have one. It is for platform diversity and emergency outbound calling.

My 83 year old uncle also calls it.

 

[easysurfer]

We had an AT&T landline till 2010. Got irked by the costs vs. new subscriber costs and went with Ooma VOIP, keeping our original landline # and the plug in phones in our house. Saved literally thousands vs. AT&T since then. With some regrets we are probably dropping our $128 annual Ooma subscription next year. We've just been giving out our cell numbers for the last 4-5 years and we no longer get many calls from anyone we want to hear from on the old home number. Cell phones only - dragged inexorably by progress.

I too have Ooma. I've also noticed that I've been giving my cell number out more and more as many places assume the number is a cell and then use that to text to to communicate.

I'll still keep my Ooma service though as I use enough to justify keeping.

 

[W2R]

Dropped ours in January, 2005.

I know we dropped our landline before 2011, not sure how much before that…

Dropped mine when I moved into my present house, back in July of 2015.

Haven't missed having a land line for any reason, even once. That surprised me! But really, my cell phone is so much more convenient and usually closer to where I am in the house, than the land line ever was.

It's great to be rid of all those landline spam phone calls, too.

 

[O2Bfree]

We dropped our landline when we dropped our dial-up internet, sometime in the early 2000s.

 

[Jeb-NY]

Since we have had the landline number so long 50+ years we transferred it to first one of those plug in the wall cell phones that could connect all the wired phones in the house to send and receive and just recently moved the phone to an iPhone that was left over after an upgrade. With a $40 adapter from Amazon I could hook it to our multi station wireless phone system which I think currently has 8 stations. My wife and I both have cell phones too but the cell phone that stays home is normally the one given out to all but a few people. Text messages that come to the house phone are sent to my wife's cell phone. The house phone has an answering machine. I found a reseller phone system so the extra phone only costs un $9/month. Since we did a long move along the way the house phone is not in our current area code which helps us weed out spam calls.

 

[frayne]

Haven't had one since circa 2005.

 

[Car-Guy]

I have two land lines and have a bonded DSL over them. Cell service is hit and miss out here even with a cellular booster/repeater.

 

[badatmath]

I will never drop it (as long as it is offered in my area). I get 1-2 junk calls a year max. I love it. Unlike my worthless cell that junk texts and calls. I don't even have vm there too much crap.

More likely to drop the cell if I had to choose. I mostly only use it for texting 1 or 2 people and using library apps.

 

[CincyDave]

I will never drop it (as long as it is offered in my area). I get 1-2 junk calls a year max. I love it. Unlike my worthless cell that junk texts and calls. I don't even have vm there too much crap.

More likely to drop the cell if I had to choose. I mostly only use it for texting 1 or 2 people and using library apps.

Wow. We were getting 6 to 8 junk calls a day. It was really annoying. I might get a couple a week on my cell.

 

[COcheesehead]

Since blocking all junk calls on my cell, I haven’t gotten one in months.

 

[audreyh1]

Sold our previous house in 2005 - last land line.

 

[FrankiesGirl]

Have a landline through VOIPo for around $7/month, paid 2 years a time.

 

[FLSUnFIRE]

2005 was when I dropped. Had to go though my expense sheets to see.


I'm paying the same now for my cell as I was back then and have much better service and high speed data! It's possible I had a phone price rolled into that though.

 

[Dtail]

Been a long time since we had one.
My 90 yr old mom has a cell phone and landline and has our cell numbers programmed in.