Do you still have a home phone?

[hownos]

Yes, cordless.

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[Allaby]

No, I don't.

[Citizen Rules]

I have no choice. Do you know what I mean? Well do you?:p

[Miss Vicky]

Yes.

When I started my current job (back in 2005 :eek: ), I did not have a cell phone. I finally got one a couple of years ago, but I like being unreachable to the people I don't want to reach me - specifically my employer ("Oh, you called? Sorry, I wasn't home."). So my close friends and family members have my cell phone number, but as far as my boss knows my cell phone does not exist. He can call me on the home phone and leave a message if he wants to reach me outside of work hours.

Honestly though, if I actually am home then the house phone is the best way to reach me. I don't keep my cell phone on me when I'm home and it's usually in my bedroom where I won't hear it if I'm somewhere else in the house.

[Captain Steel]

Yes.

[hownos]

I have no choice. Do you know what I mean? Well do you?:p

home phones here require a high speed internet connectuon.

[Citizen Rules]

home phones here require a high speed internet connectuon.Very good guess! That's the reason. I have DSL and I called to cancel my land line and was told, 'no land line no internet', so I'm stuck with a land line. Which is OK because I don't answer the phone anyway:p

[Nausicaä]

Yep, a landline. When there is an electricity cut on our street it still works. :eek:👍

[hownos]

Yep, a landline. When there is an electricity cut on our street it still works. :eek:👍

Mine doesn't work when the power is out.

[Citizen Rules]

Yep, a landline. When there is an electricity cut on our street it still works. :eek:👍Yup that's what I like about a landline it still works with no power. A mobile phone would still work too when electricity is out of course.

Mine doesn't work when the power is out.That's because it's cordless, that's what we have too and when power goes out I unplug it and plug in an old phone like this
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[hownos]

Yup that's what I like about a landline it still works with no power. A mobile phone would still work too when electricity is out of course.

That's because it's cordless, that's what we have too and when power goes out I unplug it and plug in an old phone like this
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Yes, the mobile phone works when the power is out. Home phones like mine connected to a modem won't work when the power is out. Home phones run on the old analog system will stills works when the power is out.

[beelzebubble]

Nope, not paying for both.

[Nausicaä]

A mobile phone would still work too when electricity is out of course.

Not if you forget to keep it charged like me. :tsk:

[gbgoodies]

Do you still have a home phone?

Yes, but we rarely use it. We only have it because we get a lower price on cable TV and internet by including the phone too. (We live in a co-op, so they have a special price for everyone in our co-op. It would cost us more money if we got rid of the phone.)

We don't give that phone number to anyone except family.

[I_Wear_Pants]

When I am home, so is my phone.

[Stirchley]

Yup that's what I like about a landline it still works with no power. A mobile phone would still work too when electricity is out of course.

That's because it's cordless, that's what we have too and when power goes out I unplug it and plug in an old phone like this
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We still have a landline for our security system. Three cordless phones in the house. I see no point in upgrading something we’ve had forever. And when Frontier phone is down we can call them on our cell phones. Husband has a smart phone & I have a small flip top phone.

[Yoda]

Nope.

I was slightly nervous when I first moved out on my own because I'd be using a cell phone as my only phone line (and back then this was far less common), but it turned out fine and a couple of decades later I've never had reason to pay for a landline.

[Austruck]

When we got rid of Comcast Voice as part of our triple package (TV, internet, landline), we were already Xfinity Mobile customers for our cell phones. We're allowed to have 5 lines/numbers, so we switched our landline phone number (which has been my husband's landline phone number for probably 50 years or more since his grandmother originally had that number) to a cell phone on the Mobile account. So, no more landline and we could nix the Voice part of our Xfinity/Comcast package.

But the one big plus we hadn't realized at first is that now we can take that cell phone with us when we travel. So we don't miss calls to that number if we're not home. (Granted, we've switched nearly all our contact info to our personal cell numbers, including doctors' offices, etc., but a few calls still come in to that old landline number.) And we don't have to maintain a separate data account since Xfinity Mobile allows four of our five cell lines to share data, paid by the GB each month (which usually amounts to 1 GB since the phones use WiFi nearly all the time), for $15/GB. Inexpensive!

The one (slight) downside is that, if we're not near wherever that cell phone is, we now miss calls more often. We used to have a cordless phone system with five extensions in various places around the house. But, since nobody important uses that number anymore, it's not a hardship.

[Austruck]

Nope.

I was slightly nervous when I first moved out on my own because I'd be using a cell phone as my only phone line (and back then this was far less common), but it turned out fine and a couple of decades later I've never had reason to pay for a landline.

You're not missing anything. :D That, and a cable TV package. (Still trying to talk Wayne into letting go of cable TV in favor of a la carte streaming services and channels. He watches the same 3-4 channels on cable anyway!)

[Yoda]

We cut the cord on cable a year or two ago and only "wish" we had it a few times a year, at most. Saving a lot of money that way and wish I'd done it sooner.

[Austruck]

We cut the cord on cable a year or two ago and only "wish" we had it a few times a year, at most. Saving a lot of money that way and wish I'd done it sooner.

This is what I keep telling Wayne. Cable TV packages that include nearly all the premium channels just bleed money every month! Better to pick and choose premium channels based on when favorite series are coming and going with new episodes (which is what we now do with Starz since Xfinity dropped them from our package).

I literally had to teach Wayne how to use the Fire Stick remote control on our living room TV because he'd never had to do it (since Xfinity built in Netflix and Prime in their remote control years ago). :D :D THIS from the electrical engineer, being schooled by his English major wife. :D

[Stirchley]

This is what I keep telling Wayne. Cable TV packages that include nearly all the premium channels just bleed money every month! Better to pick and choose premium channels based on when favorite series are coming and going with new episodes (which is what we now do with Starz since Xfinity dropped them from our package).

I literally had to teach Wayne how to use the Fire Stick remote control on our living room TV because he'd never had to do it (since Xfinity built in Netflix and Prime in their remote control years ago). :D :D THIS from the electrical engineer, being schooled by his English major wife. :D

I know tons more than my engineer husband. Tons. :p

[Austruck]

I know tons more than my engineer husband. Tons. :p

SAME. I think I even know more about some aspects of my computer than he does. I upgrade all the inner parts myself now. It was way more frustrating to ask him to help me. :D

[Stirchley]

SAME. I think I even know more about some aspects of my computer than he does. I upgrade all the inner parts myself now. It was way more frustrating to ask him to help me. :D

Husband doesn’t know anything on his smart phone. I’m the computer nerd in our house.

I prefer not to ask husband for help because he makes such a song & dance about it. Better to find someone else or have a bash at it myself. :rolleyes:

[Austruck]

Husband doesn’t know anything on his smart phone. I’m the computer nerd in our house.

I prefer not to ask husband for help because he makes such a song & dance about it. Better to find someone else or have a bash at it myself. :rolleyes:

I don't know if this is just an engineer-brain thing or not, but my husband has a way of making every project bigger and more complex than it needs to be. :D

[Stirchley]

I don't know if this is just an engineer-brain thing or not, but my husband has a way of making every project bigger and more complex than it needs to be. :D

Same. A bunch of us had a whole discussion about this on X. Half of us always stayed at home whenever husband tackled a project. The other half stayed out of the house until the project was done. :rolleyes:

[Austruck]

Same. A bunch of us had a whole discussion about this on X. Half of us always stayed at home whenever husband tackled a project. The other half stayed out of the house until the project was done. :rolleyes:

:D :D

I've done both. Depends on the project and where in the house it's occurring. :D

[cricket]

Haven't had one in a few years