In thinking the landline is obsolete

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Does anyone need one anymore? We only have a connection for the internet and never ever actually use the phone?

Mine isn't I use it for most calls as my mobile is pay as you go so no point in using all my credit when I get unlimited calls on my landline. If my family got rid of their landlines I wouldn't get to speak to anyone!

Come live down here and then you will find out why landlines will never be obsolete.

Not at all obsolete as far as I'm concerned. My family lives abroad and it is way cheaper to use the landline. Also my ear gets very warm after a while using a mobile.

I'm another one with crap mobile reception in the house. We have to stand on the wall round the back lawn, or the front doorstep to get reception here. Sometimes, if we are lucky, we can get a couple of bars reception in our bedroom. When we moved in here BT cocked up moving our phone line and phone number over, so we were without a landline and broadband for some days, and it was a total pain in the bum - I looked like a total prat, standing on the doorstep, trying to get some sense out of the BT call centre operators.

Plus, as others have said, we get our broadband via the phone line. And my mum has tried a mobile, but really didn't get on with it at all - she likes her landline and as she lives alone in a very remote country area, with dodgy reception too, I would worry about her if she didn't have some reliable way to summon help if there was a problem.

What fivegomad wrote. Another ignorant post from someone living in a big city.

I dont have a mobile.

hardly ignorant!! The OP is merely asking the question! If the answer is "no" then i imagine thats fair enough.

ffs

We don't get a good enough signal in the house to dump the landline otherwise we would.

I like the landline - can hear better, can walk anywhere without signal worries. It doesn't accidently cut offmid call.

If any mobile phone company could provide a guaranteed signal in parts of the Uk then fine but they can't and I would not want my parents stranded without any form of contact.

Sorry, I think it is. I got fed up with the amount of times I said don't phone me on the mobile as it doesn't work where I love and then people getting pissed off with me not getting in touch with them.

Also ignorant are the people who sell gas and electricity to you, one man thought that everyone in the country was on gas mains.

I hate mobiles, I have one only for emergencies.

I will always have a landline,especially when my children are still little.

expat I live rurally, not in a city. I do suspect the landline will be obsolete one day

YABU, we've two landlines (one work related) and still use alongside the mobiles.

I have a landline so that my grandparents can contact me. They refuse to call mobiles.

'expat I live rurally, not in a city. I do suspect the landline will be obsolete one day'

I wonder which company is going to invest in the infrastructure for that to be true with such a limited return.

We get all sorts of adverts/leaflets for broadband or WiFi that's not available out here, or at speeds which are also not available here.

The only mobile network that works out here is Vodafone or TMobile.

I reckon we're soon going to find out being glued to your mobile is a good way to get brain cancer.

And yy, had plenty of gas suppliers who don't seem to grasp not everyone is on mains. There are plenty of houses out here that are on solid fuel.

We used calorgas at our last place. A guy used to deliver every month or so

We had a sensor in the LPG tank. They delivered when it dropped below 20%. If you let the tank run dry, it's a costly mistake.

Some mates live in a new build that's on solid fuel/wood stove, though.

Plenty of the older homes are on solid fuel as well - fireplaces + Rayburn or AGA.

I don't think a landline will become obsolete but I do think its role will change.

At the moment a landline is primarily a telephone service with broadband tacked on. So even if you never use your landline for phone calls, you still need to rent it as a phone service so that they can then run broadband over it as well.

In the future I think it will change such that you have a data connection over which you can run Internet connectivity and/or phones and/or anything else you may want.

I don't see mobile data services getting cheap enough to make it viable for most purposes any time soon.

Mobile costs are going up (handsets and PAYG in particular).

Not everyone has a mobile contract (credit checks etc) and there are some great deals only on landlines with 1899.com (I spend say 3 quid every 2 months, with landline to landline calls at 5p a go and can be anything from 20 minutes to 2 hours, and I am only paying for what calls I make, no fixed fee and minutes I don't get to use).

Data from a mobile connection can be sluggish, but OK as a reserve.

A landline will still work when the power is off, and when mobile networks are out too, because of some batteries at the exchange. Remember you should have one phone with a cord at home, just in case.

same as bonsoir. i hate mobiles with a passion. i do have a pay as you go one but it must be about 2yrs since i put any money into it so it's only used for dh to call me when we split up when we go shopping.

much prefer a landline.

We only have a landline so our dear old mums can still phone us!

Wait till you have a power cut and cant charge your mobile!

I use my landline and hardly use my mobile, I can chat for free for up to an hour on my landline!

If I had to choose I would get rid of the mobile