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Do you still have a land line?

Do you still have a land line?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 60.7%

  • No

    Votes: 11 39.3%
  • Total voters
    28
beancounter

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I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
 
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beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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Same as you as far as the bundle. We live in a rural area and although the cell service has improved there is not a large enoug concentration of people for the providers to have the monetary incentive to improve things, Plus I am almost in your parent’s age bracket. Just came of age with the house phone. Not many age boxes (surveys/forms)n left. Next box may be pine!:mrgreen:
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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I have a land line. The package price of Verizon services with the land line was $10 cheaper then ala cart. Seldom gets used.
 
I have a land line through Basic Talk...cheap, cheap, cheap...12 $ and change a month...use my cell phone mostly for work...
 
Have not had a landline since 2001.
 
Nope. Got rid of it years ago when we realized that the only people who ever called us on it were telemarketers who ignored the Do Not Call list. We did it at the same time we cut the cable and got rid of pay-tv.
 
still have one here at home, though i mostly use the cell phone. i use the landline to call my folks on Friday, and have it mostly because of habit and inertia. i've threatened to cancel it, they drop the price, and then it inches right back up to where it was before. i'll most likely cancel it pretty soon, and then i'm done with AT&T for good.
 
NO...Got VOIP bundle or no bundle why pay for a service when you can have VOIP service for about $5 bucks a month....
 
Like many here, it's party of my "package". Several years ago I let the answering machine fill up and rarely answer the thing. It is, however, a good number to give people who "need" a phone number but you know your information will be sold.
 
Lutherf said:
Like many here, it's party of my "package". Several years ago I let the answering machine fill up and rarely answer the thing. It is, however, a good number to give people who "need" a phone number but you know your information will be sold.
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Greetings, Lutherf. :2wave:

:agree: A few years ago, when I became aware of the fact that cell phones weren't working in an emergency I can't recall at the moment, I kept my land line "just in case." Glad I did, because when a vehicle hits a pole somewhere in the area, etc, and shuts the electric off, my brave land line still works when the freezer, A/C, and other electric appliances just give up! With both a cell phone and a land line, I don't fuss too much, and I use the land line to call and report the outage, which means I am not using cell phone minutes when I'm on "hold" with Ohio Edison. :thumbs:
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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We had a landline in Germany, because the mobiles didn't always have good connections and often jumped into the Dutch net, which was expensive at first. Here in Spain we decided against landlines as it only means routing it to the mobiles, when you are out. So I use my German mobile as does my wife hers. She got herself a Spanish number as well, but only very few folks call it.
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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I never get a call dropped on my landline.
 
Yes I have a landline.
There is nothing more reliable than a copper wire line.
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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I have a landline only because my limitless internet comes through it. Once I can get that cheaper via wireless, I'll ditch it. But, for now, wireless has limits on data.

Funny thing--at work, I have a landline at my desk, but 90% of my calls are made on my cell. Not sure why. I just prefer to use the cell, I guess.
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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Yes and no. I have a land line, but it is VOIP via OOMA. I work at home, I need a good phone that isn't a cell phone.

OOMA charge is about $3 a month for state and fed taxes, worth it.
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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I have a wireless base that I changed from a landline to my wireless plan. I basically can move around with it. The reason I got it is I get a discount for it from my employer, and since I was in the boonies, my landline was costing 50 bucks a month. It went down to 10 bucks a month, and I could keep the same phone number.
 
I have a landline for a handful of reasons.

1. My husband is a heart patient, and I wouldn't want to rely on my cell to call 911 if I needed to. My cell service is extremely reliable, but I don't want to take the chance.

2. We live in a hurricane-prone area, and the landline is often our only means of communication when everything is down.

3. I have to have a landline because my family never answers their cell phones. Ever. If I am away from home and call them, they don't answer. If I call on the landline, they always answer.
 
beancounter said:
I noticed that a lot of people here are 40+, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.

I rarely us it, but it came as part of a "triple play" bundle. Removing it only reduces my bill by $20 out of a $150 monthly bill, so I have little motivation to get rid of it.

The only people who call me on the land line are:
1. My parents generation (75+ years old)
2. Telemarketers and scammers.

Please feel free to comment in addition to the poll.
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You get internet tv and a land line for 150$? We were paying 220 before we dumped them!
 
Gone maybe 2008, the reason was nuisance calls and bill cramming. I called up the phone company after a $75 charge was added, they took it off no problem, but when I told them that this was a repeat problem and I never want any charges to my bill so dont allow any they told me that they could not do that. I told them in that case just shut it down, I dont need the aggravation.

It felt good.
 
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