Who still has a LANDLINE at HOME?

[AviatorTom]

Modern telecommunications technology has changed the way we use the telephone. Not that many years ago, every home had a phone connected to a landline. Today, most landlines are gone and people have mobile phones.

So tell us... who still has a landline at home, and why do you still have one?

I only have a LANDLINE, no mobile phone

I only have a MOBILE PHONE

I have BOTH, LANDLINE and MOBILE PHONE

I have NO PHONE

Something else - please describe

Updates

1 y

Interesting that people in the UK say you need a landline in order to get broadband internet. In the US, internet connectivity doesn't require a phone landline. Rather, there's either a coax cable or fiber cable connection.

[SueShe]

As a matter of fact, I only own a landline. I have no smartphone. My current cell phone (Nokia 1011) is older than I am and I never use it except for emergencies.

Until now, I never had an emergency to report.

My landline phone is a black Bakelite rotary dial phone that hangs on the wall since the late fifties of the last century. Needless to say that this piece of equipment is my lifeline and in all those years, this faithful phone did not need changing.

How often did you have to change your smartphone till now?

My motto is that if it is not broken, I keep using it until it is and only if I cannot fix it (or having it fixed) will I change it.

[douride2]

I have both. I keep the land line because the cell service here is hit & miss. On a good day it works but don't walk around or it will drop you.

[douride2]

Thanks for a MHO.

[integrale77]

Most internet connections require a phone line like ADSL.
I have cable so it doesn't need a phone line but that's part of the subscription with my ISP.

Technically I have 2 phone lines as my work installed another when I started home working there connection for my work systems are through ADSL.

[integrale77]

Reference to your update I put it down to differences in developing infrastructure.

Sky has a higher preference over cable TV so not as many cable connections.
Eg my parents have no option of cable because they live right between 2 opposing companies as they were installing so that became no man's land.
Also lack of foresight means a block of flats built 2 miles from virgin media's UK headquarters didn't get cable installed.

[Valso]

We do but it's not exactly a landline anymore. The number is that of a landline but the apparatus has an integrated battery and receives its signal from the mobile cells. We could take this phone to another city if we wanted to and it would still work with the same number and area code.

[sage2021]

I love my landline phone ☎️. There she is! Isn't she cute?
She doesn't asked me any questions, she is always dependable, I can hear the other person and they can hear me, and she is very easy to operate.
Now, my cellphone is NONE of those things. It's a stupid smart phone 👎

[exitseven]

I have a bundle package from the cable company that includes a landline. Even if I did not, I would still have a landline.

[EmmaMary]

We actually have two, one for my husband's business, and one general one for internet connectivity and everyday family use.

[loves2learn]

Meeeee! 🙋🏻‍♀️ My sons use it to call their grandparents.

[trumpets310]

In the US and I don't have a landline. It seems like a way to get charged for something I don't need

[katiesmuff]

We have both at home. Land line required for some of my husbands work.

[MTC29]

I finally gave up the landline 5 years ago. There was no longer any reason to keep it.

[MarkRet]

We got rid of our landline about 15 years ago. It was just an extra expense by then.

[Astarlessnightsky]

i got both, but can only use my mobile phone, with wifi calling, otherwise i got no reception

[Astarlessnightsky]

Also landline and internet are connected in germany as well.

Unless you get a rather expensive router which connect to the mobile data like your smartphone, but as i said this wouldn't work here as well, as we live in an area where we got no mobile connection. Without the good old landline we would have to go for 10mins walk to make a phonecall

[jshm2]

Don't be stupid.

You need a landline to get a broadband router

[Massageman]

dumped our landline finally - still get HS service fiber for our computers, etc.
Otherwise, a cellphone for each of us works well - -

[Massageman]

Slight clarification for me - We don't have a landline. We DO, however, have a c1960, Western Electric, Turquoise Dial Desk Phone as a deco in our 50's room.

[Drumlin2001]

I dont currently. But buying new house, may get one just incase, for emergencies

[MountAverage]

The only landline I ever had was when I was still living at my mom's place back then. Never had one on my own.

[Anonymous]

My father. The internet provider has landline included in all packages, no extra fee.

[Red_Arrow]

One landline that is connected through the internet through fiber optic cable, plus many cell phones.

[TommyMountainFigure]

I only have the mobile phone for use when I'm out and about. I prefer to use the landline when at home.

[legalboxers]

batteries die. With a land line at least its some form of communication

[DonkeyDan]

I have both, landline have the fibre broadband running through it.

[DonkeyDan]

Re update, we have those type of connections too, so Virgin is cable and most companies offer FTTP (fibre to the premises) connections but not all areas have that available, and it is incredibly expensive to have a fibre connection run directly to your home. What we call fibre broadband is FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) and then it uses the standard copper phone lines to transmit the signal to your home. We also have 4G and 5G broadband services too, if you don't want or can't have a phone line, where you have a 5G router that picks up broadband from the mobile network and then put out a Wi-Fi signal in your home.

[DonkeyDan]

Actually with FTTP, if a company is rolling it out in your area and are cabling your street then the cost isn't much at all, just not many areas that have that.

[Dinklex3]

Land line at my parent's house.

[StephanieGirl75]

Only a cell phone a android. 💞