My husband and I both have cellphones and an internet based home phone. It makes financial sense for us.
My husband got his first cellphone about 12 years ago on a $20/ month plan. It has been grandfathered in, so he still pays $20/month for (granted) not a whole lot of minutes, but one of the main perks is the first incoming minute is free. If somebody calls, if he can't get something done in less than a minute, he calls back on a landline. He has an add-on to his cellphone plan for unlimited texts for $5/month.
My cellphone is of the "pay as you go" variety. I use it only when I am not around a landline-- just for quick calls as needed and for texts. The cost is less than $10/ month.
Lastly is the home phone. Cost is around $20/month with free long distance and no limits. We use it for mostly everything. Often, things can wait until we get home. We can conduct business, return calls, talk to friends and family as long as we want.
All of our phones have caller ID, call waiting, voice messaging-- all the perks that used to automatically come with a phone. For about $50/month all our phone needs are met. It suits us well.
Landline? Sure, two in fact. I guess that makes me Old School but cell phones don't have "extensions". A 2-line phone in every room works quite well for us. With the added benefit that on the corded phones there's no battery to go dead in the middle of an important call.
Hi and happy Tuesday :) Yep, still have a land-line. Our cell phones are only for emergencies, so we do not have lengthy conversations on them. Besides, it's nice to know there is a phone there that will work without needing to charge, or worrying if the power goes out. Does that make me old fashioned, fine, but hey, at least there will be a phone there when it's needed! :)
1. Cell service can be spotty where we live, so having the land line allows us to not worry!
2. I don't want to have to rely on a babysitter to have a fully functioning cell phone. If there is an emergency while I am gone, the phone is always there!
We have not had a landline for about 6 years, we kept dialing (no pun intended) it down as we added to our cell service, than finally the VOIP we had was more work than benefit, the service dropped more calls than our cell phones did so we dropped it entirely and went to unlimited cell service, dont miss it at all!
I do not have a landline. It is much more convenient to just use my cell phone, and since I don't really watch TV, I don't benefit from a package deal with phone, TV, and internet.
Yes, I had to move back in with my parents because of medical problems and they still have a landline basically as a way for relatives to get a hold of anyone who is home. When I lived alone, I only used a cell phone.
Nope! All I have is a cell phone with data plan. At times I even thought about getting rid of my cell phone and just have no phone. I am not sure why I have a phone or if I really need one.
Kind of. We use TMobile's @Home service to give ourselves a landline. Primarily this is due to the fact that we have kids. The benefits we saw were that one, our kids only have to memorize 1 single number, two, we can give out 1 number to the school or family phone book which calls our house and three, in case of emergency we have a dedicated house line.
With that said, if the @Home service wasn't $10/month and we had to go with something more expensive we might not have the dedicated house number. I think we'd move to having an extra cell phone on our plan keeping it around the house like a landline.
Contrary to my desires, we still have a landline for my wife's home business as well as for the little ones...or at least that's why she tells me we still have a landline. :)
Yes, we still have a landline. That way, when the children are home alone, they can still reach us to complain about whatever crime one is committing against the other. For the past ten years we have not had a long distance service on our landline which makes the bill somewhere around $15 per month - cheaper than equipping the kids with their own cell.
We've used the free counting machine at Commerce with no real problems. The machine prints out a receipt and that amount can be deposited into your account. We were shorted once by their count (a dime) and I noticed when they cleared out the machine a few coins missed the "funnel" and were stuck on a ledge. Otherwise I think it's a fairly respectable system.
I finally eliminated our household landline last Summer (2010), after 16 years with the same number. The only calls we were receiving on the landline were marketing (and political campaign) calls.
Nope - ditched the $35/mo landline for a $9/mo prepaid Tracfone (and kept our number, too!).
Yes, I still have a landline. I prefer to talk with a "regular" phone versus my cell phone. The reception is just so much better.
My husband and I both have cellphones and an internet based home phone. It makes financial sense for us.
My husband got his first cellphone about 12 years ago on a $20/ month plan. It has been grandfathered in, so he still pays $20/month for (granted) not a whole lot of minutes, but one of the main perks is the first incoming minute is free. If somebody calls, if he can't get something done in less than a minute, he calls back on a landline. He has an add-on to his cellphone plan for unlimited texts for $5/month.
My cellphone is of the "pay as you go" variety. I use it only when I am not around a landline-- just for quick calls as needed and for texts. The cost is less than $10/ month.
Lastly is the home phone. Cost is around $20/month with free long distance and no limits. We use it for mostly everything. Often, things can wait until we get home. We can conduct business, return calls, talk to friends and family as long as we want.
All of our phones have caller ID, call waiting, voice messaging-- all the perks that used to automatically come with a phone. For about $50/month all our phone needs are met. It suits us well.
I have not had a landline for close to 10 years.
We don't have cable, so our internet is through our land line.
I also use a land line with a cord for any transaction that includes bank account numbers or social security numbers.
And lastly, I give all potential telemarketers the land line so I don't get spam calls on my cell.
Landline? Sure, two in fact. I guess that makes me Old School but cell phones don't have "extensions". A 2-line phone in every room works quite well for us. With the added benefit that on the corded phones there's no battery to go dead in the middle of an important call.
Hi and happy Tuesday :) Yep, still have a land-line. Our cell phones are only for emergencies, so we do not have lengthy conversations on them. Besides, it's nice to know there is a phone there that will work without needing to charge, or worrying if the power goes out. Does that make me old fashioned, fine, but hey, at least there will be a phone there when it's needed! :)
Lois
I don't use a landline. We didn't even set one up when we moved into our house. We both have cell phones and we aren't home enough to need one.
I don't have a cell, since a landline is much cheaper and the benefits of a cell to me are minimal.
have not had a landline in years, have cell phone and voip in my home. Works well for me.
Yes I do. It is for my DSL and 911E. I suppose if I ever got an alarm system, they would probably require one too.
We still have a land line! For two reasons:
1. Cell service can be spotty where we live, so having the land line allows us to not worry!
2. I don't want to have to rely on a babysitter to have a fully functioning cell phone. If there is an emergency while I am gone, the phone is always there!
We have not had a landline for about 6 years, we kept dialing (no pun intended) it down as we added to our cell service, than finally the VOIP we had was more work than benefit, the service dropped more calls than our cell phones did so we dropped it entirely and went to unlimited cell service, dont miss it at all!
I do not have a landline. It is much more convenient to just use my cell phone, and since I don't really watch TV, I don't benefit from a package deal with phone, TV, and internet.
Yes, I had to move back in with my parents because of medical problems and they still have a landline basically as a way for relatives to get a hold of anyone who is home. When I lived alone, I only used a cell phone.
Nope! All I have is a cell phone with data plan. At times I even thought about getting rid of my cell phone and just have no phone. I am not sure why I have a phone or if I really need one.
Kind of. We use TMobile's @Home service to give ourselves a landline. Primarily this is due to the fact that we have kids. The benefits we saw were that one, our kids only have to memorize 1 single number, two, we can give out 1 number to the school or family phone book which calls our house and three, in case of emergency we have a dedicated house line.
With that said, if the @Home service wasn't $10/month and we had to go with something more expensive we might not have the dedicated house number. I think we'd move to having an extra cell phone on our plan keeping it around the house like a landline.
Contrary to my desires, we still have a landline for my wife's home business as well as for the little ones...or at least that's why she tells me we still have a landline. :)
Yes we do still have a landline. We tried to cancel it one time and bellsouth offered a reduced rate of $5.00/month to keep it!
Got rid of our landline last Summer. Only calls we were getting in recent years were marketing (and political campaign) calls.
Yes, we still have a landline. That way, when the children are home alone, they can still reach us to complain about whatever crime one is committing against the other. For the past ten years we have not had a long distance service on our landline which makes the bill somewhere around $15 per month - cheaper than equipping the kids with their own cell.
We've used the free counting machine at Commerce with no real problems. The machine prints out a receipt and that amount can be deposited into your account. We were shorted once by their count (a dime) and I noticed when they cleared out the machine a few coins missed the "funnel" and were stuck on a ledge. Otherwise I think it's a fairly respectable system.
I finally eliminated our household landline last Summer (2010), after 16 years with the same number. The only calls we were receiving on the landline were marketing (and political campaign) calls.
We have a landline for the secure link to 911.
Yes, we still have a landline.