<p>I would love that too, mostly my Mom uses it, doctor’s, banks, etc. and many “unknown callers”.
I might look into saving my home number on sym card for 9.99 and using my old dumb phone, I liked it and I would still give stores and other people I casually know that number.
I know some friends are saying they started to get more unsolicited calls after dropping landline, but still thought it was worth saving the money.</p>
<p>I forgot one item I had to deal with when giving up the landline. I couldn’t send faxes any more… Now I pay $6.95/month for an online fax service (too inconvenient to run to Kinko’s when I need to send or receive a fax). I scan documents and fax them (so you need scanner capability, too, but I assume most of us have that). I did try a cheaper fax services (maybe $4.95/month, and had trouble with them). The one I have now has been okay, although they aren’t great at blocking fax spam. Which just ends up in my email box.</p>
<p>A while back I considered porting the home phone number to google voice, but have not done that yet. May do it in the future so that we can hang on to that number for the friends/family/colleagues who do call it.</p>
<p>inparent - If you have highspeed internet, you can by Ooma device (around $100) to send fax. It works as the same way as the old landline. Monthly FCC payment is $3.88.</p>
<p>My calculation is that it would take 32 months to pay off the Ooma. 
I expect to move next year, and who knows that arrangement I will have then? So no Ooma for me for now. But others might be interested.</p>
<p>We got rid of our land line about a year ago. THe only calls we got on it were from my mother and sales calls.
Now I will admit that I am not good about carrying a cell phone around the house and that really is the only drawback so far. WE have a generator so in a power outage, we can still keep the phones charged. </p>
<p>We still have our landline for many of the reasons stated here. Big house, phone in every room, it’s a PITA to carry a cell everywhere or to multi-task while talking on the phone. Power outages aren’t an issue with a landline. I think all of my Ds elected to use their cell exclusively but when the grandkids came along they got a landline back. For the times that there’s a babysitter, or grandparent, in the house, it’s good for peace of mind. </p>
<p>I’ve started carrying the cell phone everywhere anyway since my kids always call on that instead of the land line.</p>
<p>The problem is the phone companies will phase out the landline.</p>