To ask if have or use your landline?

[DannyOD]

I have just come to the realisation that we hardly ever use our landline or receive calls on it. Everything is done via mobiles now. Are landlines going to be a thing of the past? Do you use yours much?

We don't ring out and no one rings in on our land-line except for a particular relative maybe 5 times a year. We only have it cos it was a deal with the fibre broadband.

If the phone rings it makes me jump and really sets my teeth on edge.

I don’t even have a house phone 🤷‍♀️

I unplugged it about two years ago, haven’t missed it. I only got spam calls on it.

Yes, and we use it.

I make more calls on it than I do with my mobile. Not that that is saying much.

I live in an area where there is next to no mobile reception so I use my landline regularly still.

I use my landline at least 5 days a week. Have a call package on there and don't have any issues of fading in & out or not being able to hear people. Both me and mum have hearing issues so we can hear eachother when I call her.
My auntie doesn't have a landline and her signal is so bad, I actually can't talk to her cos a 5 minute convo results in her having to call about 30 times due to keep cutting out. Wish she had a landline!

Yes and yes - we do use ours as mobile signal is bloody awful

Tho in the outskirts of a major city, my mobile reception is rubbish. So I need my landline.

My clients are v. elderly and I can only guarantee speaking to them on a landline - and after 6pm too. It's cheaper then.
And they can't remember my mobile number. It's too long, innit?

So, yes, I keep my landline. Sigh...

Yes. Live in the village mobile signal forgot. Landlines are still necessary for large parts of the UK.

I've got a landline but I don't have a working handset plugged in. I'm sure I've got an old one knocking about in the loft but I'm not motivated to find it.

I've not used my landline in 14 years, I only have it for the broadband.

My partners who live in the arse end of nowhere, with a pants mobile phone signal naturally use theirs all the time

Parents not partners

Had a land line for years but don’t have a phone.

Just mobiles

No landline. We use our mobiles and I have unlimited internet that I use as a hotspot at home.

I got rid of our landline few years ago.

We don't and have not had a landline since we started living together about 6 years ago. I honestly only know a very small amount of people with a landline and all of those people only use it to ring elderly relatives or for their businesses. Everyone else just uses their mobiles, it seems odd to me to pay for the same service twice when mobiles are so much easier as you can call on the go. I suspect it would be a different answer if you lived rurally.

I don't have a landline at all, which means I'm pretty much stuck with Virgin as my internet provider but I can't be bothered with the hassle of getting one.

Yes we do and yes we do!!

No mobile signal due to living at the bottom of a hill only thirty miles from the capital 🤔. I have also lost power for three and more days in storms thanks to our transformer being up the side of that same hill so have a non-rechargeable telephone directly plugged into the main socket. I have no intention of spending my life standing in the middle of the road while waving my mobile around to get a signal.

We don't have one.

I have one for power cuts. So a proper old plug in the wall with a cord. I can’t remember the number and if it rings we all jump!

If you have broadband delivered over copper unfortunately it's still required, otherwise I would have ditched mine about 15 years ago.

Have a landline but only because it was needed for the broadband. Don't have a phone plugged in either, rarely even think about it. Would be useful sometimes because I have patchy signal but it's manageable and not being able to use the landline means I don't waste the mobile minutes I pay for and keeps the broadband cost the same without call costs on top.

I've stopped paying for a landline, don't need it for broadband as have a fibre-optic all the way to my home. The old landline number that I've had since 1988 still works though, I've migrated it to a free VOIP provider, so it wrings on all the household mobiles via an app. I have never bothered to put any credit on the VOIP account, so it's used for incoming calls only. Nine out of ten of those are spam, so I am wondering if I should drop it altogether, even though it's costing me nothing to have.

Last time a relative called me on my mobile, the connection was a bit dodgy, so I asked them to call me again using Whatsapp. The Whatsapp sound quality was so much better that I'm now thinking one should use that for friends and relatives, and only use mobile calls for dealing with organisations and businesses.

So, for me, it looks like mobile is going to replace landline for non-personal calls, and maybe Whatsapp will replace mobile for speaking to friends and family.