Raise your hands...

[GrayMatterWife]

if you have a landline phone!

I just read an article about the things that today's advanced mobile phones (and mega-minutes packages) are making obsolete. Among other things: PDAs and landlines.

I hadn't really thought about it. We don't have a landline because...we don't need one. We pay to piggyback on a T1 line owned by a businessman in our building (so no need of landline for internet) and I refuse to pay for a landline otherwise, when we're almost never here during daytime hours (and my post-7:00 PM minutes are limitless...).

Anyone else landline-free?

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Nope, partly due to crummy reception. Some of the dead zones in my neighborhood have been fixed but no huge improvement in my house. I get reception, it just isn't always as clear as the landline. I also tend to misplace my cell or let the batteries run down, or the kids don't remember where they put it (and dead phones don't ring). I have cable for internet.

[Auspicious]

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We have a landline.

And we have one cellphone that we share between the two of us and leave off most of the time. We pre-pay $100 a year on it and that's plenty. :huh: Behind the times, I guess.

[fluffhead]

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We have a land line. DW has a cellphone from work, and I still have the same Sprint PCS phone from 1999 - it was the first web-capable phone. I pay about $10 a month - I rarely make or receive calls, but I need it in case kids fall at school and break their teeth...it's happened. I originally got it so I could track the markets on the road.

[JaneDoe]

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We have a landline too. I just can't give it up.

[alison]

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We have a landline... And, in an effort to make me sound even more antiquated: we use it for our fax machine.

There are tons of things in the medical lifestyle that still require faxing things in...

[Sheherezade]

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No real "landline". We have a home phone via VOIP through the cable company so we have a home phone number and phones in every room. DH, the kids and I all have cell phones, too but only DH uses the minutes. He's a phone junkie. (As many doctors must be.)

[migirl]

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We have a landline too. We both have cell phones, but I feel more comfortable having the landline since we have small children in our home.

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We have a landline and always will while we have small kidlets....we thought about not getting one and then it hit me that if we had a babysitter and DH and I were both out, the sitter would have no way to call...anyone! Not us, not 911, no one...sooooo, we are stuck with one. It is cheap in NA though so I can't complain...I was shocked when we got to Oz and realized that the line alone was 49/month and each call was .18/minute.....

[DCJenn]

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Landline here-

Needed something reliable during deployment and it's bundled into our cable bill.

Jenn

[SuzySunshine]

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We also have a landline though its through our cable company, we each have a cell phone but rarely use them.

[Thirteen]

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Landline free for over a year.
It just makes sense, considering the cell comes with me everywhere and I am reachable with it literally 24/7.

[HouseofWool]

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We have a land line too. I don't envision giving it up any time soon either. We get local service and DSL for roughly $36/month. Cable can't even come close to that. Besides, I worry about what would happen if there were a power outage... I like that the phone has it's own power. We are in the dinasaur camp too because I have an old corded phone that plugs directly into the wall.

[Cumberland]

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No landline here, just the cell phones.

I use around 2000 minutes just me a month But most of that is talking to the people in my 'five' that are free. I never actually get charged for overage.

[Momo]

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We have a pool and small kids ,therefore we have a land-line. I like the fact that 911 can quickly determine where a call is coming from regardless of whether or not someone is able to speak on the other end!