Do you still have a landline?

[thebraketester]

CR6ZZ said:

Maybe it is because I am partly deaf

What?

[Slushbox]

CR6ZZ said:

Maybe it is because I am partly deaf, but I like the immediacy and clarity that appears to be only available on landlines. (Yes - I'm a luddite)

I liked my landline phone, but Young People regard phone calls as a sign of mental illness and won't make them. Too much spam calls, also.

Ditched mine, use Three mobile broadband from a USB Dongle/router, but have two Grandstream desktop ethernet VOIP phones with a 'local number' from Soho66. Very good sound quality for us deafies.

Costs are about £3 a month plus calls, diverts to mobile when out.

http://soho66.co.uk/7020/all/1/Business-VoIP-Phone...

Sipgate Basic have VOIP PAYG local numbers for 'free' plus call charges.

https://www.sipgate.co.uk/basic/

Edited by Slushbox on Wednesday 28th September 07:49

[anonymous-user]

thebraketester said:

CR6ZZ said:

Maybe it is because I am partly deaf

What?

Monty Python had that invention - a big light on a head band so deaf people knew when the phone was ringing.

Light blinks
Deaf person says 'ah the phone is ringing'
Picks up the phone
'Hello'......
'Hello'....
.....

[andy_s]

Yup - poor mob signal, no fibre; I live in the past, we do things differently over here.

[anonymous-user]

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[condor]

I've always had a landline, the number was changed when I went from BT to NTL (now Virgin) 15 years ago. I tell the Virgin Media guys that I can drop the landline quite easily as I rarely use it, but they always tell me it's cheaper to keep it to get my basic TV, BB package.
I find the 'hands free' option on the landline very convenient when I do use the phone though.

[Halmyre]

V6Pushfit said:

thebraketester said:

CR6ZZ said:

Maybe it is because I am partly deaf

What?

Monty PythonNot the Nine O'Clock News had that invention - a big light on a head band so deaf people knew when the phone was ringing.

Light blinks
Deaf person says 'ah the phone is ringing'
Picks up the phone
'Hello'......
'Hello'....
.....

*cough*

[anonymous-user]

thanks i wasn't too sure which...

[chris285]

Yes but no phone connected to it, only to get some bull benefits with virgin on the broadband

[ZesPak]

Had a couple of handsets lying around and Broadband + TV comes with phone anyway.
Free calls to all landlines, wife uses it to call her mother and vice versa.
Bad reception inside so can come in handy as they're pretty loud if I'm trying to reach the wife.

[Craikeybaby]

Yes, but only give the number to people I don't want to speak to. It is mainly the mother in law that calls it.

[Ste1987]

Only got a landline phone so I can check I have a dial tone if I were to ever have problems with the line.