How many telephones do you have in your home?

0. I do have fibre broadband but no home telephone. I just use my mobile.

Two, one in the living room, one in the kitchen. The one in the living room is off most of the time. But we mostly use our cell phones, so it doesn’t matter.

No landlines or VOIP phones; just 3 smartphones – one per adult.

1.

When I had young kids we had one corded phone so we would always know where at least one was and two or three cordless.
Now we have 4 cordless and two cellphones. I can count on one hand the number of times the cordless landline phones have been use over the past month. Probably just need to do away with them.

0. I can’t remember the last time I even used a non-mobile…

3

Only one which is very rarely used, it’s really only there for Sky.

Zero, 4 smartphones though.

I think there are about two cordless phones.
The cellphone is reserved for work purposes only unless there’s some kind of emergency.

No land line, just a cell phone.

I have a 2-story house. I have one VOIP base phone in my home office with 3 remotes scattered around my house. I also have a cell phone which I use at home only when my cable service goes down. I’ve thought about dropping the cable phone but one, my cable provider will charge me more, and two, I like having a fax line.

Mostly the only calls I get anymore are sales solicitatations.

We live in a small 4 bedroom 2 bath house, as a reference. We have 3 wired phones, 2 wireless, and 3 cell phones.

All our phones are cordless from a main base, using a cable server. We have four scattered around the house, in addition to a cell phone for each member of the family (5) except the two youngest, ages 6 and 4.

I am embarrassed to admit this:.. 4 wired, 3 portables.
Wired: Basement, back bedroom, kid’s bedroom, family room.
Portable: Kitchen, Master Bedroom, Living room.

Zero.
Three smart phones on mobile only.

Weirdly, now that I’ve given up my land line, I find that I put a lot less pressure on myself to make sure that I can hear the phone ring or even to check my phone messages than I used to. I think this is partly because I’m much more reachable online than I used to be. Anyone who doesn’t know that is unlikely to be someone who I want to hear from or need to respond to right away.

Zero. I haven’t had a landline since I moved from rural NH to Seattle.

One vital corded phone for our all-too-frequent power outages, two cordless (each with one satellite apiece for guest rooms) and a cell phone that I rarely use and keep in my purse because of very bad coverage.

One landline, and my husband’s cell phone, so two.

I’ve never owned a cell phone, nor do I want one.

One, a rotary phone that came with the house.

0 The only times I have had a house phone is when I swung for the package deal phone internet and cable.

I don’t think I ever used the it the last time and never had a clue what the number was.

2, a mobile and a landline. I never use the latter.

Two plus our two cell phones.

it states not to include mobiles/cell phones…just a belated hint.

Just the one, here it is, we hardly ever use it, my wife just liked the look of it.

No landlines. Just two cell phones.

4. Three wall phones and one portable. One is in the garage (included in the original 4 number)

I have three, one in the lounge, one in my bedroom/study and the other is my work phone.

@flutherother Is the lounge the bathroom? Or, is it some sort of receiving room? Family room? I never heard lounge usednin a residential home.

No, the lounge is the living room or family room in the UK. That’s odd I thought you used the same word.

Just one, and the only reason we still have it is because where I live, you can’t get internet without a telephone landline. Its almost never used for outgoing calls and the only incoming calls are telemarketers.

One installed land line, three cordless extensions of that, and four cellphones: eight units and five telephone numbers altogether. The land line wall unit is centrally located in the kitchen right next to the hall, so there’s always one in a permanent location, plugged in and without a battery problem.

Cellphones are handy, but I still prefer to be able to reach households and to have our household reachable by family and friends. Spammers and spambots are killing that, though.

There’s probably also at least two or three disconnected handsets in the basement or the garage; at one time we had about five land line extensions around the house. Somewhere there’s a real old-fashioned phone that looks a lot like this and that actually works.

3 portables and one cell phone and I live alone.

It seems that the only people who still have landlines are those who live in rural areas or who are old enough to have seen the Beatles live on tour. Anybody too young to have seen the Vietnam War on the nightly news and who lives where people outnumber farm animals has gone cellular.

Are you talking on different lines or handsets? We have two multiple handset phones (so 5 handsets). A normal old fashioned phone for when the power goes out. And currently (it varies when children return to stay) two mobile phones. We have three lines coming into the house but only use two.

@jerv I have cellular too.
The 4 wired phones work when we lose power. The three portables become bricks unless the generator is running.

@LuckyGuy The last time I was out of power (my last 6 days in NH), the only working phone I had was a cellphone (which had to be recharged in the car). Sure, reception was spotty at best, but it sure beat the utter silence of my landline. Landlines generally require that the phone lines not be smashed to the ground by thousands of fallen trees; something that you cannot rely on when a natural disaster comes rampaging across three states.

@jerv: I concur. Hurricane Sandy took out phone lines, power lines, cable TV/Internet service and cell towers. So it was a crap shoot from one neighborhood to another what sort of service one might have – if any. There is no one guaranteed service to handle any/all possible disasters.

@jerv We have both so we are as covered as we can be.
It has been my experience that quite often when we have lost power, the land line and wired phones continue to work.
We had an ice storm a number of years back and that took out everything. Power, land line, cell phones.
One time a lightning strike took out the land lines. Then the cell phone did the job. That was one time.

For us, the most common situation by far is loss of power and working land line.

@LuckyGuy I grew up in a rural area in Canada, and that was my experience, too.

I have a voip line with all the features that costs me only $30.00 PER YEAR.

I have 3 wireless telephones connected to that line. I have a pay as you go basic cell as well.

@LuckyGuy If memory serves, you live near where I used to live, but with better wiring. Our power outages were more often the result of fallen trees even before The Icestorm, so cellular backup came in handy more often for us.

We ditched the land line and went VOIP for a while, realized we hardly ever used it, and ditched that, too. Now we just use our cell phones (both ‘dumb’ phones), and charge in the car if the power goes out.

When I was a kid, we had one phone in the kitchen. It had a really long cord, so you could talk in private if you needed to (in the bathroom!) As a teen, I got an extension in my room.