Do You Still Have a Landline?

I still have a landline for house broadband hardly ever use it though.

I have a landline and currently with Shell and my mother is with Shell as well so we get free calls between each other on the landline but must never ever use it for any other outgoing calls due to excessive pricing. I get 250 minutes on my RWG mobile contract which cost £35 for 24 months i.e. about £1.40 a month so all my outgoing calls apart from my mother I use that.

My broadband contract ends in April I think so will be changing then to get the best deal and possibly some cashback. I'd definitely consider a deal without a landline.

We curreeently have a landline but never use it, coming to the end of our Broadband contract so looking to lose our landline.

I still have a land line I just use it for doctors and hospital appointments

Yes we do, comes with the broadband but we very rarely use the house phone, I don't think I've ever used it

Yes, but no phone I don't like them

Yes, it’s what my elderly parents use and up until now has been good back-up if networks go down. Now they are going to switch to digital not sure if that will be the case anymore. I also use for doctors and my garage.

Yes, and No. Yes, I've got a landline via Virgin Broadband. No, because if there is a power cut, the WiFi goes down and I no longer have a landline. Scrapping the copper landlines is not about 'upgrading', it is about cost cutting by saving on maintaining hard infrastructure.

I only had land line due to my mum being in nursing home, Wanted to get rid but virgin media told me if I did. I would loose my discounts all I get is spam calls,

as somebody that does not like mobile phones (yes I know it is shocking that life can go on without them) - the landline is a blessing.

I am connected to an alarm so have to have it, but when virgin goes down my alarm won’t work. Don’t know what will happen when it goes digital.

It's great to have a landline.

Especially if your old school just like me.

Can't live without a landline me

We greatly value our landline, and positively hate all mobile technology as people who have it seem addicted, and it's killing normal human relationships....It has to go everywhere with them and takes precedence over everything else.

A couple we recently met came round to see us for lunch. A nice conversation took place for about an hour. Then the phone of one of them rang and she disappeared out of our living room door to take the call. A minute later her other half's phone rang and he disppeared out of a different door! It was a pantomime. Then our guests upped and offed in the next 10 minutes. Boom!!...the abrupt end of our party and all the effort put into it.

Some years ago now, another family, with growing up offspring used to put on lovely Xmasses for us for quite a few years. But when the younguns reached their adult years, everyone was tapping away on their phone, conversation fizzled out and the parents disappeared into the kitchen. It was pointless us being there and we bid eventuall them all good bye...for good.

We manage very nicely with a landline, still on copper cabling, which we ignore if we have guests ...and a MacBook laptop with broadband in my study on an ethernet cable. All this works fine. So far we have avoided online banking.

Yes, we do have a tiny, 1.0, pay-as-you-go mobile phone for emergency use and letting each other know when we're coming back home. It lives in the car except for recharging. Since we've never puzzled out how to send texts, it remains firmly "off" unless we want to phone the other party who will be at home. We don't give out the mobile number.

Our landline enables us to have relaxed and private conversations with our friends, at convenient times, which do not cut into outings/visits or similar occasions.

........and, believe it or not, we have a very happy life!!!

Our age group, well over 60 and 70, respectively.

We still have a landlines for emergencies but only a few friends and family have the number.

Still have a landline, won't have before long when the contract's up...All we get are scam calls

We still have our landline. mainly for my mom to be able to phone us but,, she passed away in December and we haven’t had one phone call since!

I have a landline style local number but it’s been on voip for years, I can pick calls up on my mobile via an app which is handy if out of the house.

I have a landline mainly as it came as part of my Broadband package. Can't remember the last time I used the Landline thou.

I have a landline, but the inly callers are scamsters and sales people.

Personally i don’t but my parents do and say they will never give it up. I can understand because every now and again they do get calls from

Old friends etc

After many, many years of a landline, I finally bit the bullet last year and ditched it, saves around £10 a month. Really missed it at first, but now I'm glad I lost it.

I have always had one. The news about the line service being shut down has not been advertised enough. The understanding is that landlines will have to be plugged into routers once the switch off happens. This will cause widespread panic for the elderly and vulnerable who don't understand that they will need some type of router. Those that need one should be being provided with access by the big companies for free. However as we all know, there will be con artists who will go all out to scam people into paying for this service

Yup and I’ve never used but scammers have the number ???

Yes. It's there so the kiddos can call emergency numbers or numbers of trusted friends and neighbours if and when needed (and yes, they've been trained and have occasional refreshers).

I do still have a landline which is now digital but used mainly just for family. My mobile signal is rubbish but do use WiFi calling.

Dumped it 15yrs ago paying for line rental when we have mobiles waste of money only ever got double glazing calls anyway, everyone rang on mobiles

We still have one for my partners dad as he doesn't like mobiles

How do you get internet without having a landline? Am I missing something here? I am sure some replies will come back as either by using a dongle (which I've found costs the same as landline rental), or use mobile phone network, but that's no good in areas of bad coverage.

Amazed so many still have them. Moved home, plugged in a handset within 2 days scam calls despite not giving out number and being ex directory.

Unplugged it then never used it. 18 months later re contracted with Plusnet who offered a broadband only package.

So no active line now. £5pm unlimited calls & texts on mobile. Mobile also has wifi calling.

Like many others we have one - but dont really use it. Its permanently plugged into an answer phone which tells people to leave a message - Its only ever my mother in law that phones us on it! Get about 5-6 calls a week but they must all be spam. Would happily loose it but it comes with the virgin broadband. I am sure eventually we will lose it though

We still have a landline but tend to use our mobile phones to make calls as part of our call allowance.

We have a landline with broadband and use it every day. We don't have smart phones, the mobile phones we have don't connect to the internet, they are just for emergencies when out in the car.

I know I am a technophobe but I have no idea how it would all work without a landline even though my best friend only has a mobile (no landline), it's all like black magic to me!

We have a package with sky and a landline is included. I never use it as I have to pay for the calls. I use my mobile as it is unlimited. All I get is scam callers or if I have given a company my number to get in touch. I know my house number but no idea what my mobile number is. I suppose I will have to learn it one day.

We have digital landline supplied by Virgin as backup if Internet goes down. Some numbers 0345 are charged so we use smart phones. Was once discharged from hospital and internet was down so had to use hospital phone to call wife to collect me, so it does happen. Smart phones can be switched to silent for social reasons so it's not the technology fault but the user. We get landline calls from hospital, friends, etc.

Landline has answer and message and this is used rather than text if the caller has a long message.

I get few spam on landline but lot on email

No I don't. They apparently are being done away wuth, except in circumstances where people are unable to go online etc. They charge you for having a landline, then your calls afterwards, whether you use it or not. Most broadband providers anyway.

We still have a landline as it doesn’t cost any extra to keep in our media bundle. It hardly gets used and we never call from it.

Used to have a Virgin Media Landline,it stopped working properly, we got constant interference,Engineer came & repaired it for it to do same as before within days so we got rid of it,we hardly used it & just got scam callers..

We have a cheap mobile which we use if one of us is on our mobile & the other person can't get hold of us...

A what?

Yes & find it so much easier than a mobile.

I still have a landline and i noticed no one mentioned the fact you have to keep your mobile charged to use it, you dont do this with a landline

Or if your service provider goes down how do you make calls ?

Unfortunately we are all forced to depend on technology now and some people tend to sneer at those with landlines

But when your mobile gives up the ghost or gets stolen or a number of other scenarios happen then you might be glad to still have one

Its a similar situation with banking, we are all forced to go to online banking now, no human interaction is involved and the scammers love it, so easy to hack into and drain your bank account online than to rob a bank

I have a landline only cos my broadband service has it . I don't use it and never have.

I still have a landline but tend to use our mobiles more.

Yes, and while it gets used rarely it's essential to have in case electricity goes down so phone calls can be made, if necessary.

Making it all online is a bad path.