to want to keep a landline

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DH says there is non need to keep a landline. I think there must be a good reason- I just can't think of one. AIBU to insist on keeping the landline?

Like @sprigatito I retain my landline purely for my mum's calls. She has never had my mobile number as she would have constantly called me at work back in the day, and frequently calls at 3 or 4 am for a chat. I can't hear the landline from my bedroom (or at least not loudly enough for it to wake me). If landline rings in the day I don't need to answer. I just pick up the message when I'm feeling strong enough.

Yes, for us, it's either my MIL or usually junk/scammers!

Every day on Jeremy Vine's show (on Channel 5), they stress the warning that 'mobiles can be a lot more expensive' if you call the show; yet for the majority of people with a mobile contract and unlimited minutes, it's actually likely to be significantly dearer calling via a landline!

Not sure if there was a cyber attack that we would be without mobile signal but the old style ones would still work. Not sure if getting rid of them completely would be a good idea

We recently dumped our landline, the service went digital and would no longer work when the power went down, which was the only reason we kept it.

Same

I’ve not had one since I moved to my new home more than two years ago. I’ve not missed it.

I've got one because for some reason Virgin internet is cheaper with it.
We don't use it and I don't know the number.
We are about to change to a different provider with internet only

Like many many people our
mobile signal is awful in the house. You can’t receive or make any calls. Can use what’s app for friends and family but if you need to call the doctor, a business, bank, mortgage broker, electric or gas company or anything like that you need the landline. How are all these going to be transferred over? How is it going to work?

Now my poor mum is dead, no one calls our landline 😰 but it is reassuring to have

The mobile signal in my house is awful and we lose the internet more than we'd like. Plus I have elderly relatives abroad who don't do mobiles. So my landline is staying.

I debated the same thing. Kids know how to call emergency and to only answer if it's me or DH calling, which hardly ever happened. A few months ago I dropped DS2 to a class, then went back and and left DD alone with dinner in the oven and went to collect DS1 from an activity about 5 mins away, so I said I'd be back in 15 mins. I got stuck behind a serious crash and was gone a full hour. Thank god for the landline, I was able to check in on her a few times and talk her through how to turn off the oven.

My dad held onto his until this year and actually when he had issues with the mobile mast going down near him, anyone in the village without one was up a brown creek.

He was convinced to get rid by BT as part of his package wifi deal but is very suspicious about solely using his mobile. With the banks seeming to all want mobile numbers for ID he worries that there is no backup and people are increasingly putting sensitive information on machines that can be hacked. Can't say I don't agree!

That's a really good point about back up phone in case of bank scam calls etc. They always advise to put the phone down and ring official number on a different phone!

We keep a landline as our mobile signal is very poor.
Wouldn't be able to talk to my elderly and frail mum without it.

We got rid of the landline years ago. We'd used it so little we hadn't realised the line had been dead for weeks due to a fault in the box on the roadside.

We have kept ours. It still goes off when the internet goes off though!

Reasons for keeping - mobile signal not good at home; need to make lots of international calls as we live near a country border which I would have to pay through the nose for on my mobile; for the same reason tradespeople don't necessarily want to call a foreign mobile; elderly mum doesn't really use a mobile and has poor signal at home, doesn't feel she needs to be contactable except on her landline. We have free calls and infinite international calls for an extra €5 a month.

We used to live very rurally where the only way we could use a mobile was via 'internet calling'. The internet was actually fairly reliable, but we had to pay an arm and leg for it, and had to have an extra aerial on the roof, to get a reasonable connection. We've recently moved to a built up area, in the South of England, and thought 'oh good, we won't need to pay for a landline anymore, that'll save us a few quid each month'. However, in the 2 months since we moved here, our internet has died numerous times. I'm now seriously considering enquiring about getting a landline installed, as when the weather is bad, we can't seem to get either a mobile or broadband signal, so what are you supposed to do in an emergency? Does anyone know if you can still get a new connection? I definitely don't think it's time to give up on them yet, as the internet is still far from being the perfect set up that they claim it to be!

YANBU.

We have a landline because:

The local mobile mast was hit by vandals and was out for four months leaving us with almost no signal.
We live in a wooded valley, and when it is very wet, the signal can be poor anyway.
When I was taken ill, my 12yo ds, in panic, couldn't find his phone but was able to pickup the landline handset in the hall, which is always there, and dial 999 calmly.

That’s not good. I’ve only got my landline because the burglar alarm system uses it. As do a lot of other burglar alarm systems. And not many of them support VoIP. Hmmm…

We have it because DP's work can call it if he's on call and they can't get through to his mobile.