It's the end of an era.

[stephec]

In 1992 I bought my first house, or more accurately acquired a large debt, and so got my own phone number.

Today we've changed broadband from the shysters at Virgin to Plusnet, and now we no longer have a landline, so the same number that has gone through different providers over the past 33 years is no longer ours.

I might need to have a brandy tonight to help get over the shock.

 

[alicat]

I feel the same - I've been putting off dropping my landline for that very reason.

 

[fossyant]

Same here - we've put a bog standard phone on the line - I just pay line rental, nothing else, but the 'cordless' phones used to go flat as we never used them. We can't actually get to the landline phone 'quickly' as it's on a window sill and there is a table in the way.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I haven’t had landline phone in close to two decades.

More recently I now have a landline number again, though technically it is a VOIP line that comes at no extra cost with my broadband package.

 

[presta]

Apart from adding a 3 on the front to expand the capacity, my number's been the same since Braintree first got a Strowger exchange about 54 years ago. On the manual prior to that it was either 3525 or 2535, I forget which.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

It's a long, long time since we have had a landline.

VOIP, no additional charge via B4RN. Mobile switches seamlessly from mobile signal to router.

 

[cougie uk]

In 1992 I bought my first house, or more accurately acquired a large debt, and so got my own phone number.

Today we've changed broadband from the shysters at Virgin to Plusnet, and now we no longer have a landline, so the same number that has gone through different providers over the past 33 years is no longer ours.

I might need to have a brandy tonight to help get over the shock.

Virgin somehow changed my landline number midway through a contract. We HAVE to have a landline to get Virgin but we have no phone and I couldn't tell you what the number was anyway. I despise virgin.

 

[Mrs M]

We’ve just let our landline go after 34 years in this house. 😟
Still keep a wee ornament though 😀

 

[stephec]

We’ve just let our landline go after 34 years in this house. 😟
Still keep a wee ornament though 😀

I can still hear the chirpping just looking at that.

 

[yello]

We have a new phone number with our fibre optic box. It's not a number we've given out so if the phone rings, we know it's spam. Everthing is mobile these days.

 

[Mrs M]

I can still hear the chirpping just looking at that.

To be truthful it was plugged in very briefly as we all jumped out of our skin when it rang 😀

 

[dicko]

Doesn’t the landline phone number stay with the property? Every house we have lived in the BT number came with the house.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yup, ditched my landline and number I'd had for 32 years last year. I'd only really kept it as the mobile signal was poor at home (plus a bit of sentimentality), but when I realised that Giffgaff did wifi calling, there was absolutely no point in keeping the landline, especially with what Talktalk charged for calls (which struck me as nuts, as they all go along the same fibre to get out of the house). Had to buy an up-to-date mobile to get the wifi calling function, but now don't miss the landline one bit.

 

[blackrat]

We use our old landline number for security questions. No phone though.

 

[Smokin Joe]

We ditched ours about 12 months ago. Even Mrs SJ, who is as old tech as they come has never once said she misses it.

I notice many firms or services who used to ask for a landline number now only require a mobile.