I doubt that we’ll ever get rid of our landline. We have a large house and I don’t want to be carrying my iPhone around with me all the time. I also prefer to talk on a landline as the reception is better. Although all of my girls did only have a cell, the ones who now have children have gone back to a landline, for emergencies, and for when they may have a sitter. They don’t want to rely on a sitter having a charged cellphone!
Yes, definitely, as everyone who was in the Washington, DC area on 9/11 learned the hard way.
Landlines also have better sound quality. Cell phones are wonderful electronic devices, but they’re terrible telephones.
Last Friday, I had to host an important conference call at work, but there’s noisy construction going on right opposite my office. So I got permission to work from home and hosted the call from my home landline. It would have been an exercise in futility to try to do that from my cell phone.
That used to be one of my reasons as well, but we now have a handsets around the house that are connected via bluetooth to our cell phones. It also serves as our landline phone. So we now get all our phone calls via the same handsets.
Excellent reason!
@Waiting2exhale - We have Comcast. We used to have cable and internet. Now we have just the internet. We use Sling($20),HBO($15) and stream a bunch free. It’s a lot cheaper than comcast cable TV.
I can look into those things, @MichiganGeorgia. I recently became familiar with my cable provider’s HBO Go service, and am now a little more familiar with using my computer for viewing things. Of course, my kids do this all the time on their phones, but I am quite unfamiliar.
@Waiting2exhale -You can get HBO GO without cable. It’s a standalone service for $15. You can also watch it on your TV if you have an amazon fire stick or a similar device.
We keep the landline mostly so that I won’t get bothered on my cell by calls I don’ want.
I can’t let go of the landline. If I’m at home, all outgoing calls are made from it. The sound quality is just much better to me.
We ditched the land line about 4-5 months ago. Ne regrets. Nobody ever called us on that line other than telemarketers. All of our credit cards and banks know our cell numbers. Now that the kids are grown/leaving the house the need for the land line has dwindled to nothing.
Keeping true landline. Was only phone that worked in last big earthquake, when cell towers went down.
We switched to VOIP(Ooma) 10 years ago and love it. We ported our landline number. The call quality is so much better than our cell phone. We bought Ooma equipment at Costco and we only pay $5 a month in taxes.
Haha, you’re just lucky for now. They’ll find your cell number and they won’t care.
In the Atlanta market, Comcast is capping you at 300 GB/month. If you go over, you’re charged $10/50 gb.
We’ve done this several times (we stream a lot of netflix), and it has me seething with anger. Net Neutrality can’t happen fast enough-I’m so done with the caps and the throttling that Comcast is doing.
So be aware if you switch over to them what they can do with regards to using the Roku and Hulu and Sling boxes if you use Comcast for internet services.
Our landline currently is hardwired, not digital. If we switch to getting the cable company to provide our phone OR get TV from the phone company, our line will be switched to digital. While we can keep the hard wired line with DSL cable for about $65/mo, we like having it for emergencies and the sound quality beats our cell phones.
When they force us to have only digital phone line, we will re-evaluate.
the only reason we still have one is because it was cheaper for Comcast Triple Play–it was completely a pricing issue. i ditched at&t a few years ago.
i’ll most likely reevaluate when the contract is up.
i do prefer talking on the actual phone handset vs the cell phone. but for the most part, its useless–i even have it set to forward all calls to the cell.
i also do wonder what you do with the kitchen wall phone jack if you go cell only…do you keep a dummy phone on it for looks?
Hang a picture over it
Ditched the landline years ago and have had no regrets. No issues with sound quality on our cell phones. Now if I can only get H to drop some of the sports channels that he watches to get our cable bill down, 
I might be cancelling my Time Warner Cable internet/phone/tv package today. I bought an iPhone and a Roku and will keep TWC for just my internet. It should save me $75 to $100 per month and cut down on my sitting on the couch time. I’ve gotten three calls last week from opinion polls and a few telemarketing calls on my landline.
I’ve had Time Warner ever since grad school. The bill used to be $25 per month.
I got one of those " we are from Microsoft and found a problem with your computer" calls this week (I told them to get a life and hung up) and also one of those " will you mail out requests for donations to the Cancer society to your neighbor’s" calls. Thanks, but I’ll pass. I don’t usually answer out of area calls, but happened to decide to do so for some reason. I also get a million calls form some local place that resells donated stuff - am reading that it’s not a great charity, though I do know someone whose son stayed in one of their facilities at one point, so it can’t be completely bogus.
we have one; basically because our younger kids didnt have cell phones. But youngest is about to get one. . . . I do feel safe with having a landline; but its rarely used.