Do you still have a landline?

[LimaDelta]

We recently cancelled ours. 25 quid a month for a phone which isn't plugged in and sub 1mb 'broadband' (no fibre here and unlikely in the future). We now have a 4G router for our home connection, and my wife and I are on different networks so should in theory be fine unless all three providers fail (or a massive network failure).

Anyone else done this? Even though we never (and I mean, not once, in the last 4 years!) used it, I must admit there was something comforting about having a 'proper' phone number.

[SlidingSideways]

Only because we need to pay for it to get broadband.

[X5TUU]

debating removing it but the unlimited data on my phone is essentially capped at 25gb so is no good for my home connection

my mobile line is however 61mb/s at home consistently vs my broadband line at a paltry 11mb/s which is annoying!

[silobass]

We do, as above "cos of the broadband"

[KaraK]

I've got one, I don't use it and to be honest I've never had a phone plugged into it and I haven't the foggiest what the number is! I'm with Virgin and could have had the broadband without it but as it was only a few quid extra a month I went for it anyway "just in case"

[beko1987]

We have, and use ours alot! SWMBO only works weekends, so is at home alot during the week with the children, and has a payg phone (and won't bloody swap it to a sim only contract)

So ours gets a hammering. To prove this, I just downloaded a CSV for the last bill (19/08 - 17/09)...12 hours 32 minutes 33 seconds... to 27 numbers. fk knows what she does, her family are the chatty type though (I avoid answering the phone).

The £8 a month for Sky Talk Anytime Extra (landlines and mobiles included) suddenly seems superb value! She never goes over the 60 minutes either, I've seen her redial!

And the fibre obv, £17.50 that can't be avoided right there

[Captain Answer]

No, when I moved into my place three years ago decided to just get Virgin Broadband as a standalone and leave it at that.

[toon10]

I moved to a new build in November last year and didn't bother buying a phone. I have a broadband line into the house but no idea what number is attached to it. I have phone points in several rooms but the only people who called me in my old house on a landline were spammers.

[Slushbox]

No landline here. I have a 4G dongle plugged into a wifi router, and that supplies the broadband. £12 a month.

There's also a VOIP phone plugged into the router which gives a local 'landline' number, from Soho66. Had a fax machine plugged into for a while dealing a client. Worked well!

Friend's daughter just gone to uni in student digs. No landline for internet, so whacked in a Three Mifi. Very snappy device:

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E53...

Edited by Slushbox on Thursday 22 September 16:10

[Dejay1788]

SlidingSideways said:

Only because we need to pay for it to get broadband.

This. Never use it, don't even know the number.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Only had mobile based phone/internet for about 8 years now.

Internet was originally with 3 but the service gradually got worse and worse, and a couple of months ago I dropped it and upgraded my O2 phone. Now my computer tethers to my phone.

Pretty happy so far, only the odd hickup with very poor speed. Tethering limit is 25GB but historically I have never gone over 15GB so lots of headroom.

[Rosscow]

Yes.

We get 70mbps down, 20mbps up and the missus is always using the landline phone.

4G is a bit sketchy round here so usually only get 3G.

[Wobbegong]

Dejay1788 said:

SlidingSideways said:

Only because we need to pay for it to get broadband.

This. Never use it, don't even know the number.

[Fastdruid]

silobass said:

We do, as above "cos of the broadband"

With VM you don't *have* to have to have a phoneline but you're then off the "bundles" and so it works out as being about £4 a month difference between having one and not.

Given that even for mobile phones providers are starting to provide VoIP apps to route via your home wifi/network there really little need for a home "landline" apart from for the physical aspect of needing one for ADSL broadband.

[AJB88]

Yes I do only because I have to, to get Fibre connection.

Never use it.

[poing]

Slushbox said:

No landline here. I have a 4G dongle plugged into a wifi router, and that supplies the broadband. £12 a month.

There's also a VOIP phone plugged into the router which gives a local 'landline' number, from Soho66. Had a fax machine plugged into for a while dealing a client. Worked well!

Friend's daughter just gone to uni in student digs. No landline for internet, so whacked in a Three Mifi. Very snappy device:

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E53...

What's the monthly download limit for £12 per month? I can use most mobile limits in a weekend downloading a few films and playing games. If I discover a new box set that has 6 seasons I haven't seen then it's gone. Not that 4G works where I live anywhere, or for gaming for that matter. No idea why I'm even bothering to ask in fact!

[Nik da Greek]

As above, just cos of broadband thing. The only people who ever ring it are PPI claims sales and my mother moaning about why we never ring She still thinks mobile phones were co-created by NASA and Satan

[Bristol spark]

Nope, i have Virgin, so don't need one for internet.

[AJB88]

Bristol spark said:

Nope, i have Virgin, so don't need one for internet.

So if Virgin finally comes to my area I can get away with just internet only? Currently have phone and Fibre with BT.

[Captain Answer]

AJB88 said:

So if Virgin finally comes to my area I can get away with just internet only? Currently have phone and Fibre with BT.

Correct, "if" they come and install broadband in your area...