I live in NYC and wouldn't consider giving up my landline. On September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center fell, ONLY landlines worked in the city. Also, during the blackout of August 14, 2003, again, only landlines worked in the city - so, hoping there won't be any more disasters in the city, but prefer knowing there's a communication line if so.
I STILL HAVE A LAND LINE AND INTEND TO KEEP IT AND MY OLD PHONE THAT WORKS WHEN THE POWER IS OFF. I CONSIDER IT A SAFETY LINE. I CANNOT HAVE MY PHONE ON AT WORK AND MY HUSBAND HAS THE MEMORY OF A NIT SO I THINK IT IS A NECESSITY.
I got a landline when I went off to college. When I graduated and got an apartment, we both had cellphones. We didn't see the point in getting a landline, especially since it would just got more money.
Since we have to have the paid connection for our ADSL internet, we use the landline for cheap-ish local calls (cheaper than mobile call rates for us Aussies). And since we don't make either long-distance or international calls, the landline is the cheaper option for us. Skype is still rarely used here, especially by businesses, so we rarely use it either.
We just got rid of our landline a few months ago. I actually really miss it, but there was a short in the line and it was going to be expensive to repair and require ripping up the ceiling in our basement which had just been redone. We mostly use our cell phones anyway, so we just cancelled the landline.
no. it's cheaper and more convenient without a landline. less taxes and fees. i bought an affordable ooma from costco. the payback period was relatively short. part of the convenience is that i don't have to worry about cell phone battery life being a limitation; i have "virtually unlimited" minutes; i have flexibility to connect any corded or cord-free phones to it; i have an option for a community and/or personal blacklist (nix those telemarketers!)... okay, i guess the list goes on. the landline wasn't needed anymore.
We dropped our land line last year after we realized no one was calling us on it except for my parents. My in-laws email or call us on our cells and we talk to our friends online via various chat formats, so it seemed silly to keep the land line for one caller. So we dropped the land line got a free Skype account and got my parents convinced to get a Skype account too and they love it.
1. I live in rural Vermont. Cell reception is better than it used to be, but still iffy at our house.
2. The heft of an old fashioned phone just feels better in my hands. And I love the ring - we actually have an old rotary phone hooked up just for the ring.
3. I just lost my cell the other day (a low-use pay-per-minute one). It's really hard to lose or misplace a big-ass land line phone.
4. I DON'T want to be at everyone's beck and call, 24-7.
We no longer have a landline. We decided to get rid of it a year ago because we primarily use our cell phones and also because it was too expensive. We were paying about $70 a month, so we're saving about $840 per year!!
Be careful when you take it to the bank--my dad took $300 in change (yep, he counted it) to the bank to deposit into his account. He had rolled a portion of the change, as is recommended, but the cashier just dumped the entire bag into the counting machine and told him he had $242.50. When he told them he had $300 and there was a mistake, they told him that the machine had counted it and he had made the mistake, somehow counting over $57 in error. He wanted the change back, but they could not give it back as it had gone into a big hopper with other change. He asked to see the manager, who told him again that HE had made an error of $57.50, and my dad persuaded them to check the machine. They finally did as he requested, then sheepishly returned to report that there was exactly $57.50 in a bag that the machine couldn't count since it was rolled and in a separate bag that they cashier hadn't noticed. Make sure you know what you have, or all that saving could be in vain!!
We really like having a landline in addition to our cells for a variety of reasons, chief among them the fact that cell phones pose health risks so we severely limit our use of them. Also, since we have a Vonage landline plan for about $30 a month with unlimited calls in the US and many other countries, it is a dirt cheap way to make the majority of our calls. For our cells, we each have Net10 pay-as-you-go phones and with their most reasonable rates, $15 per month per phone, we are confident that paying just over $60 a month total for the use of unlimited landline and limited but sufficient time on the cells for when we are away from the house ($15 buys 150 minutes), we are getting the best of both worlds.
We still have a landline, since our internet is tied to it, I'm home at least 4 days a week, and in the beginning, we did not get good cell reception at our home. Our cell plan is from my husband's office, so we cannot use it for unlimited service, except on weekends. I personally like having a landline. No worries about losing that phone! :)
I love it, great choice! Your grand-niece should be greatful she didn't get the other money with Lincoln on it, I think she would have been a little disappointed with 16 pennies!
The only reason we still have a land line is to support faxes for our home based small business. We only receive about 6 faxes a week so the cost per fax is huge. Would love to find an alternative and cancel the landline.
I have not had a landline since I got my first beeper back in 2001 (ahh, the good old days). At first it was mostly because I didn't spend much time at home anyway, so having a landline was useless to me. Now, it just seems like a frivolous expense.
I do still have a land line in my home. There are so many forms and applications where you have to list a phone number, and I don't want to put my cell number out there for everyone to see so I put my home number which has an answereing machine.
I live in NYC and wouldn't consider giving up my landline. On September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center fell, ONLY landlines worked in the city. Also, during the blackout of August 14, 2003, again, only landlines worked in the city - so, hoping there won't be any more disasters in the city, but prefer knowing there's a communication line if so.
I STILL HAVE A LAND LINE AND INTEND TO KEEP IT AND MY OLD PHONE THAT WORKS WHEN THE POWER IS OFF. I CONSIDER IT A SAFETY LINE. I CANNOT HAVE MY PHONE ON AT WORK AND MY HUSBAND HAS THE MEMORY OF A NIT SO I THINK IT IS A NECESSITY.
We have a landline because it's included with our housing situation. We only have to cover long distance charges.
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I got a landline when I went off to college. When I graduated and got an apartment, we both had cellphones. We didn't see the point in getting a landline, especially since it would just got more money.
Since we have to have the paid connection for our ADSL internet, we use the landline for cheap-ish local calls (cheaper than mobile call rates for us Aussies). And since we don't make either long-distance or international calls, the landline is the cheaper option for us. Skype is still rarely used here, especially by businesses, so we rarely use it either.
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We just got rid of our landline a few months ago. I actually really miss it, but there was a short in the line and it was going to be expensive to repair and require ripping up the ceiling in our basement which had just been redone. We mostly use our cell phones anyway, so we just cancelled the landline.
I haven't had a land line since 2003 when I was provided one in college.
no. it's cheaper and more convenient without a landline. less taxes and fees. i bought an affordable ooma from costco. the payback period was relatively short. part of the convenience is that i don't have to worry about cell phone battery life being a limitation; i have "virtually unlimited" minutes; i have flexibility to connect any corded or cord-free phones to it; i have an option for a community and/or personal blacklist (nix those telemarketers!)... okay, i guess the list goes on. the landline wasn't needed anymore.
we have one for our security system, but there's no phone plugged into it.
We dropped our land line last year after we realized no one was calling us on it except for my parents. My in-laws email or call us on our cells and we talk to our friends online via various chat formats, so it seemed silly to keep the land line for one caller. So we dropped the land line got a free Skype account and got my parents convinced to get a Skype account too and they love it.
I totally still have a land line.
1. I live in rural Vermont. Cell reception is better than it used to be, but still iffy at our house.
2. The heft of an old fashioned phone just feels better in my hands. And I love the ring - we actually have an old rotary phone hooked up just for the ring.
3. I just lost my cell the other day (a low-use pay-per-minute one). It's really hard to lose or misplace a big-ass land line phone.
4. I DON'T want to be at everyone's beck and call, 24-7.
I still have one but only because it is connected to my alarm system. Otherwise, we rarely use it.
We no longer have a landline. We decided to get rid of it a year ago because we primarily use our cell phones and also because it was too expensive. We were paying about $70 a month, so we're saving about $840 per year!!
Be careful when you take it to the bank--my dad took $300 in change (yep, he counted it) to the bank to deposit into his account. He had rolled a portion of the change, as is recommended, but the cashier just dumped the entire bag into the counting machine and told him he had $242.50. When he told them he had $300 and there was a mistake, they told him that the machine had counted it and he had made the mistake, somehow counting over $57 in error. He wanted the change back, but they could not give it back as it had gone into a big hopper with other change. He asked to see the manager, who told him again that HE had made an error of $57.50, and my dad persuaded them to check the machine. They finally did as he requested, then sheepishly returned to report that there was exactly $57.50 in a bag that the machine couldn't count since it was rolled and in a separate bag that they cashier hadn't noticed. Make sure you know what you have, or all that saving could be in vain!!
We really like having a landline in addition to our cells for a variety of reasons, chief among them the fact that cell phones pose health risks so we severely limit our use of them. Also, since we have a Vonage landline plan for about $30 a month with unlimited calls in the US and many other countries, it is a dirt cheap way to make the majority of our calls. For our cells, we each have Net10 pay-as-you-go phones and with their most reasonable rates, $15 per month per phone, we are confident that paying just over $60 a month total for the use of unlimited landline and limited but sufficient time on the cells for when we are away from the house ($15 buys 150 minutes), we are getting the best of both worlds.
We still have a landline, since our internet is tied to it, I'm home at least 4 days a week, and in the beginning, we did not get good cell reception at our home. Our cell plan is from my husband's office, so we cannot use it for unlimited service, except on weekends. I personally like having a landline. No worries about losing that phone! :)
I love it, great choice! Your grand-niece should be greatful she didn't get the other money with Lincoln on it, I think she would have been a little disappointed with 16 pennies!
The only reason we still have a land line is to support faxes for our home based small business. We only receive about 6 faxes a week so the cost per fax is huge. Would love to find an alternative and cancel the landline.
We still have a landline (technically VOIP through Vonage) because we don't have (or actually want) a cell phone.
No landline for us at the Gilbert's. I kicked AT&T to the curb last year and we save a whopping $108 a month!
I have not had a landline since I got my first beeper back in 2001 (ahh, the good old days). At first it was mostly because I didn't spend much time at home anyway, so having a landline was useless to me. Now, it just seems like a frivolous expense.
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I do still have a land line in my home. There are so many forms and applications where you have to list a phone number, and I don't want to put my cell number out there for everyone to see so I put my home number which has an answereing machine.