Have you given up your Land Line phone for a Cell Phone ?

I’ve never had a land line, and yet I’m still alive… Hmm…

I pray we never have to find out the hard way alilikoi .
I lived through 9/11.

I would never want to be without a land-line. And this is coming from an iPhone-loving 18-year-old. What happens when your cell phone dies and needs recharging? What if you lose it? You’re not going to lose a land-line phone…a land-line phone is always a good backup. And what if you’re in an area that doesn’t get great cell phone service? Service is sub-par in parts of the Tahoe area.

Also, I wouldn’t necessarily want everyone calling my cell phone all the time. My mom, for example, doesn’t give certain people her cell phone number because she doesn’t want them calling her all the time when she’s not at home.

Our house is full of land-line phones. Not to mention they also function as intercoms, which is totally awesome. :)

No, and I shudder at the idea. Reading this article about the coming dissolution of plain old telephone service (POTS) made me very sad and anxious.

Having lines safely underground and not dependent upon very vulnerable repeater towers makes me feel more secure. In an emergency, when your charge runs out or your battery runs down, you’re out of luck. If there’s no electricity to recharge with, you’re finished. In a true disaster, you’re going to run down to the Verizon store and pick up a new battery? I’d say no.

Also I still like the idea of being able to call a household and not just an individual, and I still want a phone that is nailed to the wall and won’t wind up in the laundry, in the driveway under your wheel. or someplace at the mall. I have one extension in the middle of the house that is not even cordless; it can’t get lost.

I don’t even remember the last time I had a land line.

@philosopher I lived through 9/11, too, though not as intimately as you. I think the likelihood of a land-line phone standing between life and death for me is pretty small, but not impossible.

I should add that I am disappointed that the pay phones are disappearing. Sometimes your battery dies, or you just don’t have a cell phone (or just don’t have one with you), and so a pay phone can really come in handy. And since we’ve bought into the whole credit scheme, it would ideally accept credit cards as well as cash.

I do not have a land line and removed all the phone lines from my house when I gutted it and remodeled. It makes more sense for me to have a only a cell phone and one less bill to have to pay. You can always get ahold of me, I keep a charger at home and in the car so its never dead and I’ve kept old ones when I and my husband have upgraded so I have backups in case of breakage.

I do not have a landline and I highly doubt that I ever will. I understand that my cell phone will probably not be useful however I live in the city so I am not far on foot if I have to go for help.

I’d get rid of this land line, but it’s how we get the internet. We did cut off the long distance service for it & use our cells for that. I wish there was an option that we could just get the internet, but we have to keep this land line in order to get it.

I had a land-line in my first apartment and used it so rarely that I didn’t bother to get one when I moved. It’s been 5 years or so. I do miss having an answering machine with a tape recorder.

Not only do I keep a landline, but I also keep a phone that doesn’t have to be plugged in to function. Its only smart.

Yes. I haven’t had a land line in 10 years.

I’d like to give up my land line and save money . I am afraid of my cell losing it’s charge or getting left home. Cells don’t have extensions. I am afraid in a terrorist attack it won’t work. It did not on 9/11 . They must deactivate them . They can set off bombs.
I also do not trust the INTERNET phones . Do you ?

Why do you keep putting the word “internet” in all caps? ...And capitalizing words like “son” and “land line”?

@La_chica_gomela That’s what I just asked her in PM. She does it ALL THE TIME.

I don’t have a land line, and it doesn’t make me afraid. I never forget where my cell phone is. Ever. It’s like an extension of myself. I think that older generations can’t really understand it. It’s the same way as you can’t forget where your child is, or your checkbook. When I leave a room I always remember to take it with me. Nor do I forget to charge it more than once every 6 months. I have been planning to buy a solar powered or hand-crank charger for my cell and computer in case of power outages. If the cell towers go out we’ll have bigger problems than can be solved by having land lines available. :) If I can afford it I might have a land line when I buy a house as an adult, but it really does seem like a useless expense to me…

I would get rid of my landline, but I live in the middle of nowhere and the cell phone service sucks. Once I get about two miles down the road into “somewhere” it’s fine. I’ve had two different cell phone companies since moving here and neither of them work very well at the house.

Yes, for about a decade now. The worst thing’s that’s happened so far is me not having reception unless driving a few miles outside of small towns but there were plenty of places I could have stopped and made a public call from a booth if need be.

We got rid of our land line 4 years ago.
Now it’s all cell phones.

@hungryhungryhortence, haven’t you noticed that public phone booths are disappearing?

@Jeruba: I’ve been told they are but I still see them at the gas stations and minimarts where I live.

As an old-school phone man, I will never get rid of my land line and the line powered analog phone. No power, still have phone.

@ Jeruba
Our local mall use to have rows of pay telephones. They now have two by the eatery and one other I know of.

We haven’t had a land line in about 3 years. First we had a land line and I had a cell then we just decided to get rid of the land line all together and my husband got a cell too. I enjoy always having a phone with me. I’ve never lost mine or misplaced it.

The only thing I don’t like is that my kids don’t know how to talk on the phone. They never answer our cell phones and they are always awkward when they call grandma or a friend. They just don’t use the phone enough. When I was a kid and the phone would ring my sister and I would kill each other trying to get to it to be the one who answered it.