Do you still have a landline?

Yes because the mobile signal around here can be shockingly bad, friends laugh when we say call us or we will call you back on the house phone 😂

If your landline happens to be exactly where your husband was taken ill, fine but that was luck

If the power is down your cordless phone won't work you know

We have one, comes with BT package, never use it unless it's to call my mobile which l have put down somewhere stupid in flat.
I don't think anyone has the number? maybe my 80 year old dad has, but he prefers to call on his mobile, to my mobile ...

Haven't had a landline for at least a decade

Except a 999 call to the ambulance service from my landline meant I could stay with my very sick husband when he had a stroke while sitting on the sofa, going out into the garden, in the dark, would've left him completely unattended because I couldn't have dragged him with me.

Yes, as my mobile signal isn't great in the house. I live in a village but on quite a remote estate.

We still have one , cordless answer phone so you could in theory sit where you like . I haven’t used it for about 5 years and we only keep it so that my 90+ yr old MIL can ring my husband as she refuses to keep her mobile switched on . We have it on a pay as you go thing with BT and as we don’t make outgoing calls it costs us £2.46 per month .

I still have a landline as my broadband is linked to it.
I hate a mobile phone for phone calls.
The shape is completely wrong for holding for any length of time, and it can be difficult to hear what people are saying at times.
Cost of calls though, has recently gone excessive with my provider - I think they're trying to wean us off them ready for turning them off next year.
I've bought a wired old fashioned handset that plugs in to the mobile and now use that for making most calls, though, I still haven't worked out how to answer an incoming call!

Most of the copper is still there - it's just a space / weight thing to take out the last drop

If you have a real issue you can still get copper but you should make that clear before they start work

You don't need a GOOD mobile signal for emergency calls - absolute basic minimal signal will do

And often just outside the front door works even if indoors is very poor ( wall construction ) - and since you would have to crawl to the landline you may as well crawl to the door in an emergency

Yes, although it is VOIP. We are stuffed if there is a power cut because our local mobile signal dies too.

Hahaha not if BT have stripped out the old copper cables like they have round here.

There was a lot of complaints at the time, we are OK as just about get mobile phone signal and can get signal over WiFi. But it's semi rural around here and there are plenty of areas you can't get a mobile signal 🙄. They just seem to assume everyone lives in an area with good coverage.

Yes and its sole purpose is for me to locate the mobile when they kids are not home cos I lose it twenty times a week.

Certainly do. The quality of calls over mobiles is far poorer in my experience, often cutting out or with a small delay. The mobile signal in our home is very poor which might account for the above.

Yes. Cordless. Reasons:

We have spotty mobile signal.

I like having a surefire way to get in touch with the dc (teens) when they're home alone. No possible 'oh sorry my phone was in my bag/on silent/dead' or whatever.

I often speak on the phone to my mum or one of my sisters for half an hour plus and it's just more...comfortable. Plus no worrying about my battery running low, where's my charger etc.

Yes, I have just had to switch over to a broadband landline though, I'd love to do away with it but my mobile signal isn't reliable enough to actually be able to have a proper conversation.

Also for those with poor mobile signal

In the event of. 999 call being made it will be priority over the network and everything else will get bumped of needs be

It will also use any network , not just who you are with

I still have one that came with my broadband package, it's useful in case the wifi didn't work as I'm rural and there's no phone signal in the house, however the landline works just fine.

Had one with BT fir years and got one again when I moved house. Only my mum and my older relatives used it. Dm and another one is now deceased. Changed from BT to Sky 3 years ago and have the line still but also have a deal where I can ring abroad included in package. Sibling lives in another country. I know O can phone and video with WhatsApp but generally use the land line. I have 3 handsets but only used at most twice a week. No one phones dh on landline only his mobile. Think it is changing next year but wondering how those with emergency call buttons will do.

To keep the copper you need to have a valid reason - one of which is no mobile signal, another is the reliance on the line for alarms, I think very old person who can't cope with tech change also counts

They will have taken the copper down to avoid a weight problem on the pole - you need to have made the case to keep copper before that

The copper will exist further back though - it's still in the ground, just your last drop that has been removed

We're the same ...though we do have the hand set in another room
It occasionally rings.

We have a landline because the signal here is rubbish so in the event of n emergency the landline is more reliable (we are going to be absolutely stuffed when the phonelines are no longer available). It's a cordless one so we can use it anywhere.

I have a landline. You used to have to have one for broadband. I don't use it to make calls as it is expensive as I do not have a call package as I used to. Some people call me on it but I only give out the number to a few people -close family and GP.
Figures show that almost half UK households still have a landline, which is still a lot of people, though many of these never use the phone.
I can't imagine there can be many people now with a fixed landline phone. I have had a cordless one for many years.

I have one but it's pointless really.

I need my landline to find my mobile, I lose it regularly.
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This isn't necessarily true.
When BT installed our full fibre broadband the old copper wire was removed from our house to the telegraph pole.
There was no option to keep both the copper connection and full fibre.