Do you still have a landline?

We got rid of ours about 6 months ago when BT put the charges up. It prompted us to consider if we needed it, We decided we didn't and cancelled it

So the decision of BT to try and make more money out of us rather backfired.Now they make none.

No, I haven't had one for 8 years

It’s already happening. All we had to do was unplug the home phone from the BT socket and plug it into the back of the internet router. Other than that it works exactly the same as before, except we can’t use it during a power cut.

Yes, but only because it's part of my TV/BB package. I think we only ever get unsolicited / spam calls on it.

Mobile coverage isn't great in our house but O2 switches mobile calls to wifi if the signal is poor, so we don't even need it for that now.

If I could save money by getting rid of it, I would.

Yes, still use our landline as our main phone as I get virtually no mobile signal where I live, use mobile only when out.
My landline has a main dock and a subsidiary one for recharging and have two handsets that you can keep by your side. One by my bed and one downstairs.
getting OTPs/passcodes used to be a nightmare, texts never arrived on my mobile, now sorted (took a bit of time and effort), use a device from my bank to generate the code and everyone else uses a voice message that comes to my landline.
all seems to work OK.

That's debatable.

It is true that old fashioned copper landlines are powered from the exchange not the house BUT if there is a storm overhead copper telephone cables are just as vulnerable as overhead power cables, also most people these days have cordless phones that need power to work.

If you are dependent on your landline in a powercut you can get a free battery pack from your telecoms provider.

I haven't had a landline since around 2007, I will admit I do miss twirling the cord around while on the phone.

Nope, not had one since 2004, saw no point paying for both a moblie and landline phone.

People with no mobile signal at all and VoIP you are entitled to a free battery from your provider to back up the router in a power cut.

No, we didn’t bother when we bought this house 2 years ago

i believe that for the broadband we do have a “geographical number” but def no landline phone and I can’t think where the phone plug sockets would be (house built 20 years ago so presumably has them).

I was a bit funny about it but I totally think they are pointless in this day and age

and yes I remember the queues for the phone when growing up.

No.
The farmer knocked the wire down but denied it. Would cost £140 to have it repaired.
We live rurally where there is no fibre broadband, so there is no benefit to having it restored.

Yes because the mobile reception in my house is too poor and being in a rural area we're low priority for repairs so if there's an issue with the mobile mast it can be weeks/months before it's fixed.

No. We didn’t get one put in when we moved here 12 years ago. My folks still have one. The problem they have is that they used to run a business from home and so had a business line. They gave up the business years ago but kept the number. They cannot get BT to understand that they don’t need it to be business anymore. Now they have this system where is they are on the phone and someone else calls then the extension rings!

I think we might technically have a number still, I have no idea. We haven’t had an actual house phone for about 15 years, I reckon.

Yes. I've got the line for broadband and have a cordless phone for it.

It's useful because 1) the mobile signal here is unreliable and 2) mother in law prefers to ring landline numbers because they're included in her BT contract.

yes
dh db use it
even my dm uses my mobile
and the vet use it, strangely

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From next year landlines are being phased out as the technology they run on is changed.

they'll be replaced by using an internet connection - I assume you'll still be able to use a retro-style landline phone that will just plug into a new or upgraded socket.

I don't know if landline phone numbers will change.

I hope lots of help is available for the very elderly that this might feel like a big deal for.

We technically have a line but we don’t have a phone for it. Haven’t used a landline since my mobile package had unlimited minutes

Yes and we upgraded to the cloud broadband version a couple of years ago. Mobile phone coverage here is so sketchy and sometimes the network goes down for several days (even though we are in a popular SE town!). Without a landline, I would miss any important calls from schools, doctors etc plus it's easier to contact older relatives on. The new line is also so much clearer, I prefer to use it for calls than my mobile.

Sort of, my fibre broadband comes through it but haven't got a phone plugged in

No. We haven't had a landline in about five years and even then, MIL was the only person who ever rung us on it, lol.

I've got an arthritic condition and used to get painful wrist and fingers holding the mobile for long calls. then I realised I could use my AirPods and talk hands free! Never occurred to me before. I'd had them for ages but just used them for listening to music and audio books.
Made such a difference being able to carry on with what I was doing before being interrupted by someone wanting a long chat. Now I carry on cooking, walking the dog etc while talking.

I've still got one - it's free with broadband. Evening and weekend calls are free, as are daytime calls to anyone on the same network. It is used mainly for long duration calls to family.

It's better than mobile when calling small businesses that don't have computerised answering menus (such as my local pharmacy). On a mobile the call drops after about 10 unanswered rings, but on a landline you can wait until the call is picked up.

I live about 100 yards from a county boundary, and the cell mast nearest to me is in the next county. Dial 999 from my mobile at home and I get put through to the "wrong" call centre, and fire and police don't respond to incidents over the border. (I have to set my mobile to internet calling and call via wi-fi and the router to contact the right county - or just use the landline)

With two wireless handsets it can also be used like a walkie talkie within the house and garden! This saves a lot of running up and down the stairs when doing electrical or plumbing DIY upstairs, with a second person situated at the mains switch or stopcock.

I can walk around with my landline and it's more comfortable for long calls than my mobile is.

Yes because we have no mobile phone signal here due to remote location. Our mobile phones are connected to wifi indoors but this is provided by Airband and is not the most reliable. So yes, landline stays - even if it doesn't get used very often.