Do you still have a land line phone?

[Tom M King]

I need the landline to call my cellphone so I can find it.

Pam and I call each other's when we need to find one. We've been without a landline for a few years now. We still have a line coming in for the DSL, but they did run conduit down our road for Fiber Optic just last week.

[Frederick Skelly]

The power thing is one of the phone companies antiquated fallacies. Most cell phone towers have backup generators. At our last house the terminal that fed our house with a landline had no backup power. If the lights blinked, calls were dropped. Probably the same phone company you have.

Well, maybe things have gotten better in the last couple years. Hope so. But I got stuck on a trip where horrendous weather rolled in. The cell phones were down for 3 days. The hotel landlines worked throughout.

[Ole Anderson]

Yes. The only reason we still have a land line is that it costs me zero as it is bundled with my cable. Not any cheaper if I don't elect to have the phone. Anyone calling the landline gets a message "If you need to speak with Ole or Anne, call their cell phone, otherwise leave a message and we will notified by email with a transcription of your message". Only folks I want to have our mobile numbers get it. I got tired of the majority of our landline calls being 800 numbers wanting to take advantage of me. Do-not-call-list fails. I dumped 5 wireless phones and just kept one hardwired phone in the shop with the ringer turned off. Best of both worlds.

[Mac McQuinn]

Yes, I find it secure and reliable.

Mac

[Bruce Wrenn]

Yes, but I'm self employed so it serves as my receptionist. Have fax machine hooked up to it also. Only have basic service, plus wife added called ID about two years ago. Amazingly, we call our selves from our own number a couple times a month. Caller ID shows call originating from OUR number.

[Myk Rian]

Make sure you get good cell reception before deciding on no LL.
We got rid of ours several years ago. All it was good for was the Politicos and scammers to call.
I cut the wire and stapled it to the pole in front.

[Todd Willhoit]

We keep one because if the power goes out, the land line will always be there. We keep an older phone that does not need batteries as well.

This has been my excuse too. It is also convenient for faxing, although I expect the Ooma could do that.

[George Bokros]

It is also convenient for faxing,

Who faxes anymore. Email PDF files.

[Jerome Stanek]

Who faxes anymore. Email PDF files.

There are a lot of people that fax I still do when it comes to signing a form and Drs have to fax Scripts

[George Bokros]

There are a lot of people that fax I still do when it comes to signing a form and Drs have to fax Scripts

Most places I deal with accept pdf for signed documents and yes my Dr faxes Scripts but direct to the drug store not to me.

[Jim Becker]

Yea, I forgot to mention earlier that our alarm system also uses the "land line". So since it's really not costing us anything in the bundle and wireless/cellular service in our home is difficult to support for the alram (I have a microcell for our portable devices), the "land line" stays for now.

[Mike Henderson]

There are a lot of people that fax I still do when it comes to signing a form and Drs have to fax Scripts

Even doctors are getting away from faxing prescriptions - a least around here. They have an Internet (electronic) system that allows them to send prescriptions to providers. But I think prescriptions for controlled substances have to be on paper (original, no copies or faxes) and the doc has a numbered prescription pad with carbon copies so that each prescription is logged. At least that's the way it was done in the past (maybe 5 to 10 years ago). I would hope that even prescriptions for controlled substances could be handled electronically by now.

Mike

[Fax is really OLD technology. The image received is often poor and subject to misinterpretation - especially when combined with poor handwriting, which could be serious for medicine. The electronic technology requires the doctor (or nurse, who usually actually does the sending) to choose the medicine from a list, and the software checks against the patient's existing medications to warn of interactions.]

[Brian Henderson]

Pam and I call each other's when we need to find one. We've been without a landline for a few years now. We still have a line coming in for the DSL, but they did run conduit down our road for Fiber Optic just last week.

Go that way, it is infinitely better.

[roger wiegand]

The cell phone does everything a land line does except allow me to make phone calls when I'm at home. I'd have to get (probably several) micro-cell extenders to enable cell service on our property and we'd have no phone service at all when the power goes out unless I made a much bigger investment in backup power for the network.

Given the pricing schemes dropping phone service from our FIOS package would probably end up costing us more than our current TV/phone/internet package.

If they ever build a cell tower that gives us signal I might consider going cell only, unless I had to pay more to do so.

[Bill McNiel]

Yes, the wife needs it to fax real estate documents.