Keep in mind that eventually almost all phone service will likely be voip, the landline carriers are converting over to digital service, the true landline running over copper twisted pair has numbered days, copper wire is just too expensive and fiber cheap that it is unlikely anyone will keep true landlines. In my area Verizon has already switched almost everyone over (which also gives them an easy in with FIOS, since it uses the same equipment), and the other local telcos are doing the same\ thing.
Got rid of the landline 2 years ago. The savings of $600 a year is worth it. However, it was difficult to remember to change the contact number with so many important people who have it and need it.
Dr, dentists, credit cards, banks, financial people, mortgage company etc.etc.etc…all those stupid reward cards for each store. Ugh. Had to eventually let them all know. Im sure I have missed a few.
What I don’t miss are all those darn sales calls.
I have to say the nomorobo.com that somebody mentioned upstream has been working amazingly well for us since I activated it a few days ago-it went from the phone ringing about 1x/hour with sales calls to…nothing. Yay!
Comcast would charge me more to ditch the land line and only have internet, so we’ll stick with it for now.
^^so jealous^^
@MotherOfDragons , that was me who mentioned Nomorobo. I’m glad it’s working for you - amazing how the calls drop off, huh?
Another tip if anyone has U-Verse VOIP service (and probably other carriers have a similar feature) is to block phone numbers. Once in a while, a sales call gets through Nomorobo. I can check my call log on the account management page for U-Verse and find the phone number that called me. Then I can block that number so that they can’t get through again. My iPhone also has a Block This Number feature that I use when I get the rare spam call on my cell.
@patsmom, @MotherOfDragons - I use Nomorobo (on U-Verse)…but my phone still rings one time before Nomorobo catches it. Is this your experience too? I love the idea, but I’d love it more if my phone just didn’t ring at all.
Yes, it’s supposed to ring once. I’d prefer if it didn’t ring, too – but that’s not how it works. I’m usually sitting at my desk by the phone when it rings and I used to pick up at the first ring but I’ve had to sort of train myself to wait before picking up now.
I LOVE that Nomorobo is also blocking all the political spam calls!
Finally got Frontier to get their Keystone Cops to leave and suddenly we had phone but no internet, and lo and behold we got a real person on the line and switched to digital (IOIp) so Nomorobo works.
Hallelujah.
We get about 12 single rings per day, and about 5 second rings. The few that have gone through have all been legitimate calls.
It really works.
I have not had a landline since about 2005, I remember that it felt weird at first only to have my cell, but I travel a lot, and have good cell service where I live, so have not missed it.
My dad currently has a landline, but lives somewhere that cell service is spotty at best. If I were to move back by him I would have some form of landline, because cell service is bad. He is moving down to my neck of the woods soon, where there is great cell service. Not sure what he will choose to do. But, my suggestion would probably be to ditch the landline.
I get more political spam calls on my cell than on my landline!! I am ready to dump my cell. 
Register your number with Do Not Call List. I don’t get many spam calls on my cell phone.
I’ve never gotten a political call on my cell. Used to get them all the time on my landline. I do get some telemarketing-type calls, although not a lot.
Bwahahahaha! Donotcall has zip effect on the current political campaigners or the IRS caller (who I am sure got the number off that political campaign phone number list).
I don’t answer if it’s a number I don’t know. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. If they are people I will never talk to (scams, etc) then I block the number.
Ditto, romani. 
The IRS buggers learned how to leave messages. So I ignore that, too.
Who are the IRS buggers? Do you mean robocalls? They amped up their efforts on my line. I get quite a few daily and sometimes two different numbers call simultaneously spitting out garbled messages.
I also take advantage of google if people don’t leave messages. A quick google search will usually tell you if a number is a scam or whatever. I then block those numbers too. My phone is much quieter lately
I’m back on the Windows/Microsoft scam list and received two calls this week from them. I’m not ready yet to drop cable and switch to Netflix but it will be done in August.
Nomorobo doesn’t work with our carrier 