What's the use of your landline phone?

Well my landline is my only line since I dont have a cell phone...so its used for personal, biz, etc etc....Even once I do get cells for the kids and I it'll still be our main phone...And like you we have the package deal with T.Warner (phone, internet and cable)....

Hi Shadow,

YES you are right, most of the peoples would always prefer to use
the cellphone or mobile phone instead of a landlines, due to many reasons.
Because of the price and convenience we are liked to use only the cellphone
instead of a landlines phone. But some peoples still interested to use
the landlines particularly when you want to get the Internet connection you
must have the facility of Landlines otherwise there is not possible to have
the internet connection. By using this types of landlines would cost us more
when the bills come to end of the each months. So better to have the connection
and keep to use for the purpose of only incoming, instead of outgoing, which
would save many more bucks in the bills.

Have a nice day.

I use my laptop most of all. Its connection requires a phone line. I read an advert for broadband Internet without a home phone line. I know mobile broadband doesn't need a home phone either. I use my home phone which is a land line for phone calls. I do need to phone people and I get people calling me.

we have 2 landlines and the other one is for my father's clients..the new one came with our broadband internet connection and it's free of charge. we use it to call anywhere (local numbers) and even to the province where my relatives are. now we can talk on the phone forever without wworrying about the bill at all unlike before when we used to pay a lot just for a couple of minutes of talk..if not for the free calls, we wouldn't have chosen that telephone line because there are a lot more reliable and effiecient broadband companies around

Well not only for an internet connection but my landline is an integral part of my home since even with cellphones around,we use it to make calls within the same subscriber network as it is cheaper than making the same calls from my cellphone network that I use.

uhh,, can a bayan span be considered a landline?:P I just use it to call friend's who are at home rather than just text them..:)

Youngsters would rather use their convenient mobile phones than the lanline phone, because they have formed the habbit contacting friends through mobile phones, even when they are at home, they will phone others up with mobile phones spontaneously. However, my parents don't think the same way with me, when they are at home, they always use the landline phone to talk with their colleagues, maybe they still remain a deep feeling for the landline phone, after all, they are getting along with the landline phone in the time when the mobile phones were still in the cradle.

Hi Shadow,

Our landline is actually used a fair amount, though not by me lol. My brother and father both use it to contact their girlfriends, and then my brother also uses it to ring our mother as well. If we are ever going to visit any of our grandparents we use the landline to call ahead since our grandparents don't usually have their mobile phone on and don't use the Internet. On a personal level I don't use the landline because I don't like using phones full stop, so if I can get away with it then I like to do things by e-mail, or if that is not possible, then by text message with the phone as the last resort. Away from family, the people trying to sell us stuff always call on the landline even if we never answer. So all in all it is most definitely used a fair amount here, as are the mobiles of the people mentioned too.

I find it amazing that the landline in your house is never used, I can't imagine that in this house . Is it freeing to be able to ignore it, and what do you use instead? I am just curious so you don't have to answer if you don't want

All the best,
Dranz

The landline is the only phone I have, since cell phones are annoying and always felt like a violation of my privacy. I was out, which meant I didn't want to talk to people I wasn't with!

My husband has a cell phone, but he also bikes to and from work and actually likes phones unlike me. His cell phone can come in use when we're out together. But the landline is my phone...if people call, they can leave a message. If they won't stop calling, you can unplug it and enjoy the silence of your home. I love it. I also work at home part time for a charity which requires the use of a landline, so I use it for that as well.

I uses my landline which is a prepaid types to call my local neighbors and to make a long distance call to relatives only once or twice a month and i spend at least $5 on it. Though never call frequently as the phone is mostly a receiving phone and nothing to call unless it is a sort of emergency calls. So far it is a lot of savings while the expenses is mostly traces on the monthly internet bills, water and light which cost me $ 35 to pay.