Landline-obsolete or necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have friends who only have a cell and I hate calling them. Never a great signal, and I get tired of saying, "what, I missed that?" all the time.

Totally agree. I hate talking to someone on their cell. I think I tend to have a hard time dealing with background noise anyway, so it really drives me nuts when friends call from their cell, esp when they're in the car.

[Anonymous]

I just got a landline after not having one for over 6 years. Up to now I just used my cell and that was fine. What made me change my mind? Children.

we wanted a landline so the babysitter and/or kids could use the phone if need be. It is a lot of money for very occasional usage but as part of a bundle it hurts a bit less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still have one and won't give it up.

1. Line quality. Landline is always clearer than cell. Talking cell to cell drives me nuts. Also, cell phones on conference calls if you need to do one on a weekend? Ugh. Lots and lots of line noise that everybody on the call has to listen to.

2. Service in a power outage or not having a charged phone in an emergency. I still have an old-fashioned landline phone next to my bed for those emergency calls. I think having only cordless phones or only cells is a mistake (but this is just my opinion; others could easily point out how much money keeping a landline wastes me).

3. Although I have people call me at work for most things, there are some things I prefer to get on my home answering machine. I don't really need a ten minute exposition on her scheduling difficulties from my dog walker on my work voice mail.

I feel like a dinosaur because I realize most people assume they should just call you on your cell, but I actually sort of hate my cell.

I'm with you 100%, especially where bolded. Right now we have a bundled cable package that includes phone, but at the end of the one year "low price" period I'm ditching it and going back to a phone line from the PHONE COMPANY that will work when the power is out. It happens only occasionally, but I'm a safety nut that way and get nervous about setting myself up for situations where we might not be able to reach anyone or be reached in case of emergency.

[Anonymous]

We gave up our landline when we moved this Fall. We never used the landline before...in fact our old cordless broke and the ringer wouldn't work...and that's when I realized we Never used it. our cell reception from home is perfect-on both ends. We have a 2 year old and 4 year old. One day nanny forgot her phone (but I work from home) so it wasn't a big deal. In an emergency o have aphone thru my work computer.

I am very 'old school' so I miss the landline---prob more as a concept than anything else.