Day one without a landline :)

[TheTigerUK]

Contract coming to an end so yesterday I sorted our broadband and mobiles out, saved just over £40 per month. One of the savings was to get shut of the Landline which we only kept because my wife liked to speak to one of her sisters in Australia a couple of times a month who refuses to use a mobile or learn how to use one, they are now going to write to each other.

None of my immediate family have had a landline for years, feels strange but good especially as about 50% of the calls are scams :)

It does show how we can waste money on phones etc if we don't keep on top of them.

[Franky Four Fingers]

Contract coming to an end so yesterday I sorted our broadband and mobiles out, saved just over £40 per month. One of the savings was to get shut of the Landline which we only kept because my wife liked to speak to one of her sisters in Australia a couple of times a month who refuses to use a mobile or learn how to use one, they are now going to write to each other.

None of my immediate family have had a landline for years, feels strange but good especially as about 50% of the calls are scams :)

It does show how we can waste money on phones etc if we don't keep on top of them.

Id be too worried of the “what if”

[Onelasttime]

We're with Virgin so have to pay for a landline as part of the contract. We last used it in 2008 and haven't had an actual wired phone since 2010.

Nice to see letter writing is still a thing.

[TheFlyingBanana]

We're with Virgin so have to pay for a landline as part of the contract. We last used it in 2008 and haven't had an actual wired phone since 2010.

Nice to see letter writing is still a thing.

Pretty much the same thing here. Haven't bothered with connecting a landline phone in years now. I can't really see the point.

[eldrich]

Going to be ineteresting in the future, my folks are in the middle of Norfolk and can't get a cell-phone signal worth anything inside their house. I think they can get O2 in the front garden and something else the back garden. If you sent them a txt message they usually don't get for 24-48hrs until they go to the local town.

We tend to contact them via Facetime as they have an iPad and Wifi in the house but 90% of their calls are via landline as all of their friends (local) have the same issue and find the landline phone easier than fiddling with a cell-phone.

I still remember when I was little we had a 3 digit number......

[mitch1956]

if you have no need for one you wont miss it, i have a 94 year old dad who insists on calling on the land line, his home phone has large numerals, he cant see a mobile to dial or even use!, he has no internet and never had any internet , to get him to use anything else is not going to happen now!, i am researching the new digital phones but transition if it happens wont be easy for him!

[bwest76]

I have kept mine and use it at home all the time.

I think its free I am not paying much anyway.

[M1011]

Id be too worried of the “what if”

What is the “what if” to worry about?

[Franky Four Fingers]

What is the “what if” to worry about?

I’ve got elderly in-laws with more health issues than Mr Burns. We’ve had several early morning calls where we’ve needed to rush over to one of them. Most of the time our signal is just about ok but it can just disappear. Despite numerous complaints to Virgin/o2 it’s never been sorted. Losing the landline would be unthinkable currently.


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[hilly10]

Such a shame your wife’s sister will not use a mobile, Face Time is a game changer for relations down under, I speak to my cousins every week, so much enjoyment for all

[Jubal]

Such a shame your wife’s sister will not use a mobile, Face Time is a game changer for relations down under, I speak to my cousins every week, so much enjoyment for all

This. Family all over the world. Love a bit of FT and WA video calling. No landline here.

[chicaneuk]

Seems to be a bit of a generational thing, generally... folks into their 50's and beyond generally can't get past the idea of not having a land line but then also only want to spend the bare minimum on a mobile contract with virtually no data, etc. I have been landline free for at least 13 years and it has yet to bite me!

[Reeny]

Such a shame your wife’s sister will not use a mobile, Face Time is a game changer for relations down under, I speak to my cousins every week, so much enjoyment for all

I was going to suggest a £4/month second sim card with 100 minutes International calls included from Lyca mobile. But Face time, Zoom, Teams, or Skype would be an even better option.

Note: Lyca mobile uses the EE network, so the phone signal and 5G package is great. But their customer service is very hit and miss, bordering on none existent. Their website crashed halfway through an order and it took me 6 attempts (about 3-4 hours in total) over several weeks to cancel the second sim ordered in error.

[TheTigerUK]

Such a shame your wife’s sister will not use a mobile, Face Time is a game changer for relations down under, I speak to my cousins every week, so much enjoyment for all

My wifes other sister is just down the road from the sister who won't use a mobile and she and my wife sit on face time for what seems hours at a time.

I remember in the 80s/90s I would stand over my wife while she was ringing OZ and time her for five minutes :)

[Tooks]

I’ve got elderly in-laws with more health issues than Mr Burns. We’ve had several early morning calls where we’ve needed to rush over to one of them. Most of the time our signal is just about ok but it can just disappear. Despite numerous complaints to Virgin/o2 it’s never been sorted. Losing the landline would be unthinkable currently.


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Do your mobiles and network not have the WiFi calling option?

We have zero mobile signal where we live, but with WiFi calling they work just like they’re connected to the network, even text messages with one time passcodes etc.

[Reeny]

The copper cable landlines will be obsolete by end of 2025 anyway. So the only way to keep a current landline number open will be via a digital phone connected to fibre broadband.

Business numbers and home landlines will all be using WiFi calling in future.

[Franky Four Fingers]

Do your mobiles and network not have the WiFi calling option?

We have zero mobile signal where we live, but with WiFi calling they work just like they’re connected to the network, even text messages with one time passcodes etc.

Yes they do however for some reason when on WiFi calls both of our mobiles drop out after 20-30 seconds, it’s very strange and again something which they dont seem to be able to fix.

[LukeBird]

I’ve got elderly in-laws with more health issues than Mr Burns. We’ve had several early morning calls where we’ve needed to rush over to one of them. Most of the time our signal is just about ok but it can just disappear. Despite numerous complaints to Virgin/o2 it’s never been sorted. Losing the landline would be unthinkable currently.


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Enable WiFi calling on your iPhone?
Mobile signal in my house can be a little ropey, but it’s crystal clear when on WiFi.
Settings > mobile service > WiFi calling if you’re unaware.
I never used the landline when I moved in here, just went straight to fibre.

[bwest76]

Calling the unaswerable doctors yesterday I used my land line and mobile for a better chance to get through.

If the signal goes I still have a phone, plus its clearer and easier to hear with.

If my mobile battery goes down I still have a phone.

Nuisance call I dial 14258 and auto block it.

I only use it for UK calls.

It costs me £30 a month for Broadband,TV and land line.

[ALindsay]

Ditched ours a year ago. Just have fftp now - copper connection gone.


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[blackal]

Contract coming to an end so yesterday I sorted our broadband and mobiles out, saved just over £40 per month. One of the savings was to get shut of the Landline which we only kept because my wife liked to speak to one of her sisters in Australia a couple of times a month who refuses to use a mobile or learn how to use one, they are now going to write to each other.

None of my immediate family have had a landline for years, feels strange but good especially as about 50% of the calls are scams :)

It does show how we can waste money on phones etc if we don't keep on top of them.

You can call an Australian landline from a UK mobile, I’m fairly certain…………

[Kingstepper]

Think braodband was cheaper with a landline for some reason so w e've still got one. Haven't had a proper call for probabaly a year, just idiotic Amazon scammers and such like.

Mrs K likes to keep it operational 'in case it's the hospital' (waiting for an appt. though it never is and they have her mobile number anyway) . Always me who has to answer and she's not happy when I give them any abuse.

[Dave O'Sullivan]

I ditched mine a few months ago.
I’ve lived in my current house for almost nine years and I have never even plugged a phone in to the wall. I have not the faintest clue what my phone number is / was.

[paw3001]

Haven’t had a landline with a wired up phone since 2022.

We do have to have a landline but for the broadband only

None of us have missed the phone as we all have mobiles but I still have 3 wireless Siemens gigs set handsets stored somewhere. I really should get rid of them!

[Normunds]

Ditched landline in 2005.

[Mark020]

Ditched landline in 2005.

Me too. Never missed it

[bloater]

Been without a landline for about 20 years now.
I used to work shifts and it would be ringing with spam calls during the day and waking me up so I unplugged it.
Still paying line rental for the broadband, fibre was meant to hit the village in May last year but still waiting.
The bonus is I have a phone number that I can put on forms safe in the knowledge that I won’t get a call.

[subseastu]

What's a landline? To be fair we've not had one for about 10 yrs

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