Land line; is it time to dump it?

[Accy cyclist]

You should be able to do that from a mobile too.

Should,but can't.

 

[Milkfloat]

Should,but can't.

Perhaps @tyred should have written. "99.9% of owners can do that from a mobile too".

 

[Drago]

Should,but can't.

Not since you chopped your fingers off poking burning paper through the neighbouring flats letterbox, eh?

 

[ColinJ]

Perhaps @tyred should have written. "99.9% of owners can do that from a mobile too".

... because they know how to!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Ditched ours when we switched to B4RN Broadband (1Gig at the router).

£30.00 pm saving us £47pm vs what we paid the Robbers at BT.

Don't miss the landline at all.

 

[alicat]

Edit. Using the landline to call is usually the most effective method of finding a lost mobile IME.

Damn, you beat me to it. It's the best use for my landline!

 

[Littgull]

I keep my landline as it still works in a power cut, and mobiles may not (depending on how extensive the outage may be).

It's the other way round in our house. Landline doesn't work in a power cut (of which we have had 4 in the last week!) but mobile phone does. It's been useful having the mobile available because I have been able to phone and go online (via data) to find out from the Electricity Distribution Company the nature of the fault and estimated restoration time.

 

[13 rider]

It's the other way round in our house. Landline doesn't work in a power cut (of which we have had 4 in the last week!) but mobile phone does. It's been useful having the mobile available because I have been able to phone and go online (via data) to find out from the Electricity Distribution Company the nature of the fault and estimated restoration time.

A landline does not stop working in a power cut but your phone might if it plugged into the electric an old fashioned corded phone will still work

 

[Littgull]

A landline does not stop working in a power cut but your phone might if it plugged into the electric an old fashioned corded phone will still work

Yes, that's the reason. I have a landline phone that is dependant on being plugged in to the electricity supply.

 

[NorthernSky]

i never use the landline for calls but use broadband a lot of laptop and xbox etc
will be stuck with paying it for a while longer

 

[johnblack]

Ours hadn't worked for a couple of years, but an Openreach engineer fixed it yesterday when jiggling about with the broadband.