Do you have a land line?

Just switched over to VOIP from my land line, thus keeping the same phone # I have had for years.

As to why, the number is the reason - relatives, and others, all have that number, and I just don't feel like having to try to get everyone I can possibly think of updated with a new number should I let the line go.

Plus, I like being able to answer a phone in any room of the house where I have a cordless phone handy, instead of constantly having to run and find my cell phone every time it rings.

 

I have one because I have DirecTV, and had to get a phone line with Bellsouth/AT&T to get DSL service with them. It is the only reason. I didn't have one when I was in college, aside from when I lived in the dorm and a local phone was required to order Pizza.

 

Land line came in real handy after the hurricane last year. No power. Cell phone ran down. But I still had the land line.

 

Never had a land line myself. I moved out of my parents home in 06, never could justify the expense.

 

Yes. Because my sister and I used to live together in a gated apartment complex here in Austin. Naturally for friends to come visit, they have to dial in. The apartment management said we could use cell phones, but wouldn't give us two separate numbers to dial into (my friends dial me, her friends dial her) and they were most adamant about not letting us use her cell phone (Houston #).

Therefore, we got a land line. It turns out it's handy because my sister got crappy reception in our apartment, so half the time she'd drop calls anyway and so they'd call the apartment phone. She used that land line a bunch.

THEN my sister moved out. I was going to cut it off, but I found out she entered us into a price-lock contract, and I don't have the money to break it.

So I still have a land line, even though I have no real use for it.

 

No, but I have a Frag Mine. Actually lots of Frag Mines. They are all over the Capital Wasteland.........CHILDREN!


(actually I do have a land line)

 

I still have mine, but I am about to get rid of it. Should save me about 50 dollars a month.

 

No. My wife and I use cell phones

 

Luckily the dorms provided the line, you just had to bring your own phone. We kept it unplugged most of the time because we would get calls for previous students or what seemed like identity theft schemes.

 

I've had a landline exactly once in my adult life. My parents moved into my house for a few months while they were shopping for and then remodeling a new house. They got it and paid for it. The phone line to my house was broken by a neighbors tree during Hurricane Humberto, and the phone company never reconnected it. I'm completely off-the-grid. (Well, except for power, cable, water, and sewer.)

 

Yes: but we rarely use it. Its only used by my mother when she stays over. She will call each one of my sibs to say hi...no matter where they live. This is the only reason why we keep it. We all have cell phones.

 

The cost of a land line + our cell phone plan is less than the cost of unlimited minutes on a cell phone plan.

 

That's primarily why I still have a landline. In a disaster or blackout cell phone service can go down while landlines have their own power source. I still have a landline and an old fashioned corded phone. Also its good to still have a phone handy when your battery runs down on the cell phone.

 

We just got a landline again because we get poor reception on our cell phones at our new home. Honestly, we just downgraded our cell phone plans and picked a $20/month service with AT&T and our bill is the same.

 

Haven't had a land line since I graduated college in 99, it's a pointless expense for me.

 

When the SHTF all of your cell phones will be worthless. Land lines will be wide open.