Whats the point of a landline phone?

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Are there any advantages?

A bit slow on the uptake but we pay an annual amount plus calller ID and unlimited calls but we already have those things on our mobile packages.

Are there any good reasons to have mobile and landline or is landline now a relic?

you can normally hear people much better on a landline

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Also if you call a landline you know the person is at home when they answer and isn't variously driving/in a work meeting/on a train in a quiet carriage. For me, a mobile is for emergencies, not everyday calls.

We have mobile broadband (no BT line where we live and they won’t put one in - long story, we tried!). It’s expensive but at least we can stream videos. The BT line won’t even allow us to watch a YouTube video (when we had it in our old house). The service is that poor in our area (a not very remote part of the SW!).

The only reason I’ve needed one recently was to hire a car. They said for reasons related to terrorism they need a landline number because too many dodgy people getting hire cars and using them in terrorist attacks. I had to use my MIL’s number because she’s the only person who has a landline that I know!

I love in Victorian house and have poor mobile reception inside the house. Unless I want to make and receive every call in the garden, I won;t be giving up my landline.

For my mother to call us on. She is the only one who ever phones us on it. Well, her and sales calls.

Depends upon where you live. I have no mobile signal and slow broadband - a landline is still useful for me.

I haven't had a landline since I moved out of my parents' house in about 2005. I have just always used a mobile. Not sure why you'd need another phone. Even they don't have one and they are in their seventies.

Because we have no mobile reception in most of the villages around here

My mum is the only person that rings our landline. It's on the middle floor so is a right pain if I'm in the kitchen or the bedroom.

I asked virgin to cancel it but my package would actually be MORE expensive if I didn't have it in the bundle!!!

How else will you find out that you are potentially owed thousands of pounds in compensation for a car accident you never had?

Zero mobile coverage on all networks in most of our house. We live in West Sussex...so hardly the middle of nowhere.

It’s also a broadband death zone (in the bottom 1% of the whole country for speed and reliability) so voice calling over the internet isn’t much fun.

To find my mobile phone... I can never remember where I put it down so I ring it from my landline to find it. If I lose the land line phone, I use the 'find phone' feature on the base to find it, then use that to find my mobile.

I pulled my landline out in 2011 and haven’t used one since. My DM no longer has one either, I don’t really know anyone who does aside from my Grandparents and DH’s Grandparents.

I still have to pay for the line because of the broadband which sucks.

Landlines are pointless.

Well I was bloody glad I had one when my unwell daughter started having febrile convulsions with a very high temperature. I couldn't find my mobile and needed to call an ambulance so actually not pointless at all in every situation.

We use ours pretty regularly because we have anytime minutes and have limited minutes on our mobiles. Sometimes mobiles go flat/take a while to charge and landlines can be useful. We're not big mobile people though and tend to just get a cheap handset and use them rarely. We also get lots of calls on our landline from family and places like the doctors, dentist etc. I suppose we're just landline people but not everyone is, doesn't make them pointless though.

Ah Cloudpop I get those on my mobile now. 🙁

Herocomplex yes me too. Bane of modern life.

We sometimes stay in a small village in Devon in a holiday cottage. You have to have a landline there as there is no mobile signal whatsoever.

We have no signal in the house house so jave kept the landline

We are lucky in that we have a string mobile and 4G signal. We don't have a landline, just a router which works off the 4G signal. £22 a month (I think) for unlimited broadband.

When I joined a club in my village and filled in the membership form I automatically gave my mobile number. The membership secretary almost did a double take and in an awed voice said "oh you're one of these modern people, you have a mobile telephone"

This was in 2017. It really amused me!

I don't know anyone who uses a landline these days apart from my parents and their generation. I'm 42 and my parents are in their 70's.

I pay for the line for broadband. But don't have it plugged in. I plugged it in for the first time last week when dp took my phone to work by accident. Came in handy.
I'd cancel all Your extras.

We have family who live overseas. We often get in touch by email, but if we want to actually talk to them, we ring from the landline. We'd need to take out a mortgage if we called them on a mobile.