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 have one with our virgin media package, but we’ve never plugged it in. Just use our mobiles.

Yes because mobile signal is unreliable at best and non-existent at worst here.

I work from home so it's used daily, my Mum lives with us and uses it regularly for ringing her friends.

The last time I had a landline was when I lived with my parents. I've never had one of my own.

Yes I use it occasionally

99% of my calls are via landline while my cheapo PAYG mobile is mostly uncharged in the bottom of my bag.

Had a landline and only calls I ever received were sales/market research crap so unplugged it and gave it away. That was 9 years ago, never bothered with one since.

Have too. No mobile signal within 5 miles of me.

We have a landlines because being rural we have no mobile signal and no chance of high speed fibre here.

haven’t use a landline for 20+ years, never missed it, that and my cheque book m, just no need.

When Ds was 3 I got him to record the message for our landline voicemail. He is 14 now and I can't bear to unplug it! His grandmas ring just to hear his little voice

Yep, I have a landline. I don't use the phone much: either landline or mobile.

I'm contemplating getting rid of my mobile actually. It'll be one fewer thing to cart around.

I use my landline all the time because I live in a black hole when it comes to my mobile signal.
I tell my friends this but they forget & try to call my mobile, cue difficult conversations, misheard words, crackling on the line etc.
Just call the landline FGS.

I haven’t had one for about 5 years now.

We had one because the broadband was on a phone/internet/tv package but we ditched the phone and watch all our tv via iPlayer, Netflix etc.

Mobile reception is rubbish in our house. Sometimes I have to go outside & halfway down the garden to use my phone which is a pain when it's raining, so we do use the landline regularly. Also, my elderly parents use it to call me, as does one of my friends who finds mobiles difficult due to mobility issues.

Oh, to the people saying they have rubbish mobile reception. We get our mobile signal over the WiFi.

Use mine all the time, as a mobile is a faff. I need to keep it charged and remember where it is.

Also need a landline for the broadband.

When we return to the UK it will be the same as it is hard to get a decent mobile signal where we live.

Just cancelled the call package actually, need the line for internet

We have one here. We live very rural, and the mobile signal is shockingly bad sometimes. I would never voluntarily get rid of my landline.

Someone said to me a few months back, that BT were thinking of dispensing with everyones landline, and making everyone have their landline phone through the internet (V.O.I.P.) I think it is.)

I bloody hope this is not true.

Especially as I know someone whose employer ditched the landline 2 months back, and got 'voip,' and their lines haven't worked properly since. Very few people can get through, and they have times when they can't dial out. 2 months on, and they are still struggling. They are losing business because of it!

Also, what if someone has no internet? I'm sure there are quite a few people who don't have it! Especially the elderly. And I reckon they rely on the phone (landline) more than anyone else!!! They would also be less likely to have a mobile phone as well.

Also,as has been said, some people need landline for the internet. (You need it with Plusnet for sure!)

You've only just realised this

Can't remember the last time I used ours.

Yes, I use it all the time. I never make calls on the mobile unless I'm out and if I'm at home I don't answer my mobile I wait for whoever it is to ring the landline.

Haven't had a landline since 2004.

Yes but rarely use it.

I use my landline, don't like talking on a mobile too long. Am actually considering getting rid of my smart phone and going back to a straightforward brick mobile. Don't like being so connected now, what with facebook and apps that ask me how my trip to Morrisons was I know you can turn locations off but I am so over the whole faff of it.