Putting out the question…considering saving some $$$ by eliminating our land line and going exclusively cell only. We may be the last household who actually has one! Lol
I actually have a land line. We use it for the security house alarm. I’m to cheap to update our security system to wireless. So we continue to keep it 
Pro - most of the calls we were getting were political or sales or the Police asking for money. Don’t miss them at all.
Con - no messages when you get home. Sort of lonely.
We have a landline. I’ve debated getting rid of it but have continued to keep it because a) removing it from the bundle with internet/cable wouldn’t really save us much money (I’d like to get rid of cable but keep it only for husband’s sports watching) and the cable’s internet speed/quality is much better than what else is available) and b) cell phone reception is kind of sucky in my house.
I did it and am happy with the choice. Because I had the landline for many years, I ported the landline number to Google Voice (free answering service) — and then I recorded a voice message that says that the number is voice-mail only and if they don’t leave a message, they won’t get a call back. 99% of the calls are telemarketers or scammers; they don’t leave messages, and I just get an email telling me that there is a “new missed call.” — which I ignore.
If they do leave a message, then I get an email with text taken from whatever message they recorded, and of course I can listen to the message if I choose.
Of course if my cell phone was lost or the battery died I wouldn’t be able to make outgoing calls. However, I have an extra cell phone charging battery - so in the event of a power outage I would be able to recharge the phone. But in any case, so far there has been no need for the landline.
The advantage of saving the old number as a direct-to-voicemail is that I still have a valid number I can give out if I don’t want to be getting junk calls to my cell phone – so I’m glad I kept the number. On my cell phone I don’t pick up calls from any numbers I don’t recognize. Same deal: if the message is important, then the caller will leave a message.
I need my landline, as my cell barely works indoors in my neighborhood.,
The pros: - great sound quality - especially if you have a lot of work conference calls. (We know who you are, you bad quality cell people, and yes, you sound far away and unprofessional ),
-having a phone number to provide instead of cell number for non important call back number (dentist, CC, fireplace cleaner, etc)
-emergency 911 calls
The cons: none. It’s pretty much free with cable. Add the number to the do not call list. Ok, if you don’t have cable it might cost a bit.
We resisted for awhile, then decided to give up our landline a year ago, but made that number hubby’s cell phone number. I took his old cell phone number (which we used more often) and discontinued mine (which I rarely used).
Pros - cheaper (than having both) and no worries about missing calls we want to catch because they called the home number
Cons - absolutely none - we wish we had done it much sooner
This, of course, is due to us having decent coverage here. If we didn’t, that would change everything.
Still have the landline on AT&T even though we have a triple play bundle with Comcast. If I ever want to get a cheaper internet, I dont want to lose the ph. #. I could port it but I also use it to find my cellphone (though my watch now sends a ping to the cell). Use it only for telemarketers and occasionally its easy for the kids to get us at home rather than conference us in to one call
I used to use the landline to find my cell phone. In fact, that’s about all I ever used the landline for.
Now, I just say, “Alexa, find my phone.”
I work at home often and have many conference calls. It’s so much easier to do them on a landline than a cell phone. Once I retire, we will get rid of the landline.
I should add we currently live in a no cell coverage area but may be moving soon so that’s why this has come up.
I guess if it doesn’t increase our bill (if bundled) then there’s no harm in keeping it.
It’s a brave new world and I’m going into it kicking and screaming. Heck I still have a DVD player 
We still have a VHS player - and once in a while, still use it for old movies - as do our college graduate kids. The DVD player is “new” and still fairly common for folks to use around here where limited data plans are more the norm.
We definitely have a DVD player and still rent from Redbox when we want to see an new release. Cheaper than other options.
I even have a VHS player still because it is part of the dvd player although I can’t remember the last time we used it. I’ll admit to being a bit of a luddite.
My family hasn’t had a landline since we moved into a new house in the mid-2000s. We haven’t missed it. We’ve had plenty of good cell coverage since before then though.
If you have any high speed Internet it makes no sense to have a landline nowadays. I use VOIPo, around $180 for 2 years after taxes. Uses your same landline phones. I can blacklist telemarketers in so many ways - including using prefix wildcard blacklisting. You can use your cell phone to make calls and pick up calls.
Can’t believe up until 2 years ago I was paying $35 a month for a landline that I used maybe once every 2 months, all in the name of “having a phone available in case there is no power for days”
If you have poor cell service in your house (like we do), you can lean on your cellphone company to get a “MicroCell” device that connects to your cable internet service. We have ATT and were plagued with poor service at home. The constant scanning of frequencies drained phone batteries quickly, dropped calls coming down the street, we’d have to walk outside to carry on a conversation on our cellphones, etc.
DW, the hot head :), got tired of it and told ATT that we’d drop them if they didn’t give us a MicroCell at no cost. One magically appeared at our house a few days later and we’ve been happy campers since.
FYI: we have Comcast Xfinity “Triple Play” at home: TV, internet, and landline. The landline isn’t a “true” landline and is weird when it comes to faxing and even some touchtone services. If you really need landline services then you should stick with an ATT line.
I’ve had very poor cell service in my home; we tried a MicroCell, which didn’t improve our cell service. When I upgraded to an iPhone7 last September, I was finally able to use a cell phone in my house for the first time because this phone had a VOIP feature. Still have a landline because its bundled with cable and internet and it’s cheaper to keep the bundle than to pay for cable and internet separately.
I have a package that combines phone, cable TV, and Internet. I don’t think there’d be much savings cutting the phone. That said, I’m too old fashioned to give up the landline. I want a long-lost friend to be able to “look me up in the phone book” and find my (landline) number. I want my location known if god forbid I ever have to make a 911 distress call.
The one thing I miss is the ability to fax. After giving my land line up about 5 years ago, I subscribed to an online fax service ($6.95/month). Still quite a bit cheaper than the land line. You scan a document, then the service will fax it to the number you give. Incoming faxes are PDFs, and you get an email when they come in. I did get a lot of spam faxes. I was an estate executor at the time, so the expense was worth it.
About a month ago I gave up the fax service in one of those periodic purges of recurring expenses I rarely use. Hadn’t gotten or sent a fax in a year, and thought, “Heck, who faxes any more? We all just attach to emails now.” A week after canceling, I was updating my will, and discovered than many financial companies only accept fax or snail mail beneficiary forms. Sigh. Could have gone to an Office Max or something, but just snail mailed them off. But I wouldn’t go back to a land line, cost wasn’t worth it.
My 90 year old dad thinks Armageddon is upon us because of the demise of the land line. He is sure we are all in big trouble because we aren’t in the phone book. He’s pretty rational on most things (except politics), but my kids & I have added land lines to the list of topics to avoid with him.