Is there a good reason to keep a landline?

We ditched ours about 15 years ago and only use cells, but I can see a value for larger families or the elderly living alone.

I think there are specific situations where it might make sense. For example, physicians who take call, might want a landline as a backup if their phone was dead or couldn’t get signal for some reason. For most people I don’t think it makes sense. I’ve had my house for about 10 years and never once wished I had a land line.

To call 911.

Following the 1989 earthquake, many people lost power, water, and gas. They kept phone service, and that kept a lot of people sane.
If that happened today, you would also lose cell phone service.

The backhaul for landlines is pretty close to the same as cellular now. Most cell towers are on battery and/or generator backup. You probably won’t lose cellular any more than losing a land line in 2023.

I can see no advantage to keeping a land line.

It’s one more option for communication.
Most people have ditched their land lines. So cell towers have been known to get overwhelmed with calls during emergencies like an earthquake or terrorist strike. This can leave the land lines wide open.

Here ya go. https://www.fluther.com/235413/can-you-convince-me-to-dump-my-landline-see-details/

So I dumped my landline, and I still miss it, sort-of, but I am doing fine without it.

^ I dumped mine about a year ago. I still to this day look at the spot it was in to see if anyone called.

Thanks all. What are the logistics of a cell phone? Where do you put it when you are at home? I am just so used to having a phone hanging in the kitchen and an extension on my desk.

I still have a landline. It’s about 20 dollars a month, so not a huge expense but definitely one I am on the fence about.

@LostInParadise I don’t carry my cell with me all over when I’m in the house. I will have it in the bedroom at night but I’m not one to look at it constantly. I use it for the morning wake up alarm to get me up so I can get my daughter up. I use it for a timer if I am cooking something. If I’m outside, like I am right now (on the deck), I have it out here but it’s dead right now so it’s useless. That’s one reason why I like the landline, because I am not always great with keeping the cell phone charged.

I haven’t really conquered the “where to put it” problem, yet. It lives in my purse, hung over the neweost, but I just hope like hell there’s no emergency at night, because I forget to take it upstairs.
And when I am finishing up a conversation, I still go stand in the corner of the office where the landline lived for 25 years.

I am old and stuck in my ways,this is hard for me.

Not having enough money to spend on a mobile phone is enough for me.
My land line has a answering machine. If you want to talk to me and I don’t answer, leave a message!
And I have no need for a mobile phone.

I had mine much longer than I probably would have because for a while I had a “triple play” deal from the cable company. When I called them to see about taking the phone off because I mainly used my cell phone, they played the card that if I removed one of the triple play items, I wouldn’t be saving as much and I would actually end up paying more. At that point, my landline number became the number that I gave to people if I had to provide a phone number, but I really didn’t care if I ever talked to them. And that’s really where most of the robocalls and telemarketing calls went, was to my landline.

Eventually I got disgusted with how high my cable bill was and decided to cut the cord and just keep my internet. At that point my landline was gone, but it’s fine. At least my cell phone doesn’t have a limit on the number of phone calls you can block, which my landline did.

Most obvious reasons:
1.you don’t have to charge it
2..you always know where it is.

Some people hesitate to make the plunge, thinking they’ll lose the number they’ve had for 50 years. Just.port your landline number to your cell phone.

Panasonic makes a Link2Cell where the cell can be connected to a cordless phone with extensions.
“Link2Cell is a cordless phone system that operates together with your cell phone. Simply charge your cell phone through the USB port on the Panasonic base unit and synch the two via Bluetooth. Now you’re ready to make and receive cell calls that are automatically routed through all your home phone handsets.”

https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Cordless-Digital-Answering-Handsets/dp/B07DH8D92J/ref=asc_df_B07DH8D92J/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312151186247&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7088339527722999916&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1021375&hvtargid=pla-586574054878&psc=1

A bunch of good reasons but I have stated them ad nauseam. They have to do with safety and security….........not losing a phone number.

@SnipSnip you don’t lose your phone number unless you go to an dumb ass phone company.

You port your old number to a NEW phone service (in the USA).

And port it to your cell phone.

@Tropical_Willie Try reading it again. Someone else was worried about losing a phone #. I would never give up landline telephone service voluntarily.

I’m sorry, there are no good reasons to keep a landline. I hear what people think are good reasons, but there really are none other than you just don’t like change or are elderly and it’s not really possible to understand cellular phones. I had one ~23 years ago in my first apartment without room mates. I dropped it after a few months because I just used my cell for everything and was only getting spam calls on it. Never missed it, never once needed it. It’s literally something that will be thought of in the near future as something that was only still a thing in the previous century.