Does Anyone Still Have a House Phone ?And Do You Still Use It ?

We do it's part of our Broadband package but it's never used in fact it's unplugged at the wall as all we used to get was cold callers and outgoing calls are included in our packages using our mobiles .

I have a house phone with my broadband but it never gets used. I'm changing to a new broadband provider in a fortnight and getting rid of my landline, as all the family uses mobile phones.

I still have one and use it now and then. My son keeps telling me to get rid of it as I have a mobile also so paying for landline that's hardly ever used tbh

We have one but it never gets used anymore. We kept it as my OH grandma called us on it, but since she is gone it has never been used. I unplugged it recently as was getting alot of scam calls.

Yes, we have one, don't use it much, mostly on a weekend because calls are free, I personally wouldn't have one, I never use it, it's my wife that wanted to keep one

ded We literally got rid of house phone a month ago because our broadband and line rental went up so much this year. Started researching and decided not to have a home line, this saved quite a lot of money.

After our land line stopped working properly we had it repaired by Virgin Media, after a few days it stopped working again so we made the decision to get rid of it...

We bought a cheap mobile phone & installed that in our home to use when our own mobiles are in use..

Got one. Never use it. Think it's broken if I'm honest. Don't even know my phone number

Yes we do and it is used everyday, it is easier for elderly family to keep in touch. Plus you don't need to worry about signal drooping out

Yea I do every day for elderly family too as the last person said. It’s back-up for no signal or problems with mobiles. Unfortunately the telephone companies are going to move to digital anyway so eventually will be pointless. I’m planning to stop using then or hopefully at least for as long as my parents are alive.

We only have ours because it is part of our sky bill and wouldn’t be any less if we removed it. Our number changed recently and I haven’t got a clue what it is and because our BT are so old the battery only lasts a couple of minutes before it gets cut off. Which is great when you don’t want to talk to someone. Just about manages to take messages when we are out.

Yes but its one of those digital voice connections so if the mains goes down then the phone doesn't work on mine. My mother has a Vodafone router and I couldn't help noticing her router came with a big lithium ion battery warning on the box so wonder if hers actually stores charge so emergency calls can be made by her digital landline. I have a call package included so have unlimited free calling so use my digital landline a lot but she doesn't so I always call her. My mobile phone contract is 250 minutes a month which I'll admit I don't get close to using all of anyway but even so use the digital landline all the time for outgoing calls. I was recently calling around for her about getting her boiler replaced and looking for quotes. I still like having a digital landline and hate doing stuff on the mobile and actually still having a call active on the mobile so its nice to just use the mobile for finding out stuff while I'm on the digital landline. Now that I've moved to First Direct banking everything is on the mobile.

I do and still use it. Broadband is linked to the landline and generally I find it handy to have an alternative to mobile

I have a home phone, bought twin handsets but they don’t work, ir in wrong socket

We never answered it anyway, as too dodgy these days then 1471.was always handy in cases misplaced my mobile.

Yes some of my relatives won't use mobiles so still have a landline and I get loads of scam calls from my "bank" and Microsoft as well - always makes me laugh!

I got one from a local free-cycle group last week as my mobile has been glitching for a while and the last problem was me not getting calls and all the settings were fine and I have poor health and was like what will I do if I need help and then my friend left me their back up mobile phone but it’d good I think for back up . I didn’t use one for years before last week I had it on a little table covered in dust apparently they were going to do away with landlines at some point maybe still are !

We still have a home phone but never use it for calls, we just use it for the light up digital clock.

No, i done away with mine a long time ago. It didn’t really have a purpose. I don’t like answering the phone not knowing who it is.

I have a mobile and a landline . To be fair I don't make or receive many calls as I meet friends and family virtually every day . Not one for nattering away to pass time . I realise that I could make calls over the internet (and it would make my current package with Plusnet cheaper if I did away with the landline and went purely internet ).

Is it just me ? Or does anyone else just feel more comfortable with a land line (for about £10 a month more ).

Probably the only time I feel it's worthwhile when faced with the "call queues " when trying to ring the Doctors or certain businesses . "we are experiencing high demand you are No ......... 68 in the queue etc " Just put the landline phone on speaker , enjoy the music - Not !! and carry on with what I'm doing till they answer .

Would probably cost a fortune with a mobile ?

We have one as part of the package -It s always been straight to answer machine so rarely gets answered

We have ours but will getting rid of it soon. The line has issues & BT won’t be fixing it - they’re phasing them out soon so they’re not going to do any fixing, just patch up work only

Nah, it’s not worth the 40 marketing calls a day