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No landline. Totally unnecessary in this day and age. 
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I disagree with that. We have a landline because we have multiple people in our household, not all of whom have cell phones, and one of whom has a life threatening allergy. I can just imagine a scenario where I am out running errands, my husband goes into anaphylactic shock, and my young child is digging through pockets/etc trying to find a phone to call 911, after she's potentially helped administer an epi pen to her dad. A landline is a low-cost safety feature.

What may be slightly less necessary is my insistence that my landline be copper. [b]My landline is always on [/b]and we have a corded phone in the kitchen. Our phone is not "on until the backup power supply dies." The power can go out for 5 days, and we will still have phone.

I am risk averse, so I think my belief that a copper landline is necessary is likely to be overkill for some people, but I question the situations where people think landlines aren't necessary at all.

We cut cable television, but I'm unwilling to cut the landline. Call me a paranoid Luddite![/quote]

Thanks for the response. What is your copper landline provider? [/quote]

Not true, the landline is not always on. During the 2012 storms, we lost the landline too. It is not the same like we had back 20 years ago with the rotary type phones. When the cell phone towers went out in our neighborhood, the landline was dead too.

I was insistent on having the landline for emergencies after the 911. But what's the point, if it is serviced by the same cellphone tower?

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