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?

Have to have one I think as part of BT package?
Only my mum rings ok it!

doesnt your ear get hot and do you worry about brain tumours

No, I'm never on it more than a minute or two and no, because most research has determined there isn't a link between mobiles and brain tumours.

I only have one because I can’t get broadband here without it. I don’t even know what the number is.

I'm another one who lives in a mobile blackspot.
The annoying thing is, most companies nowadays are set up to automatically ring mobile numbers. Trying to sort specialist car insurance was a nightmare, as every company insisted on taking my mobile number, and, despite me telling them to call the landline, called me back with quotes on my mobile.
Which meant I spent the large part of a week driving 10 miles or so to find a signal to be able to access my voicemails.
I went with the company who actually called the landline. The only 1 of about 15.

99% of the time I have the wee voicemail signal displayed on my phone. It's there now.
I'm going shopping tomorrow, so I'll listen to it and delete it then. If I remember!

We have no mobile reception at home so yes we have one and use it.

Yes. Far better reception.

I never make calls on my mob - I can hear better on the landline, and everybody I know always ring on the landline. Mob is just for messaging etc.

We have it because we have to as part of the Sky package.

Never use it to dial out but occasionally we will get a call from school/GP on it.

Better reception on the landline.

Oddly it is always the landline that's used to relay bad news from abroad, so when it goes off in the night...

We dont have a landline but my mum does, we always laugh about the time my nephew lifted it & said what's this? When we told him it was a phone he started turning it around confused (i assume looking for a screen) and asked did it have any games

I think I've got a landline, I pay line rental because I have to for my broadband package, haven't had a phone connected for over 5 years. I'm on an unlimited mobile contract so use my mobile for everything. I don't even know my landline phone number.

I have a landline but the only person who has the number is my mum. I occasionally use it to ring out as our mobile reception at home is crap!

Haven't had one in the house for a decade. Only person I know to have one are the in laws and grandparents.