Do you still have a landline?
Poll: Do you still have a landline?
Total Members Polled: 193
Discussion
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.
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.
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
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
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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!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...
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