The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you still have a “landline” in your house, or do you just use your cell phone for everything now?
Talk about it….
36 comments
Yes, I do. However, we never use it.
Nope. I ditched it upon retirement because the office wasn’t allowed to call my cell phone for official business.
My cell phone was for my convenience – not theirs. That is of course unless it was mandated and they pay for it.
I moved the “landline” number to an extra smartphone and $3 a month for 30 minutes. It mostly gets telemarketing calls and wrong numbers. I have another smartphone for personal and business.
Meh. I’m more worried about a terrible feeling of Claycordian Deja vu
🙂 Or, like me, do you just use your landline for everything?
Haaa! I read “land mine” at first and thought “was that really a thing?”
But yes, we do maintain a landline. Not sure why.
Meh. I’m more worried about a terrible feeling of Claycordian Deja vu. Does this mean there’s a glitch in the matrix?
Dropped landline long time ago.
Too many robo and brokerage cold calls. Now use prepaid phones and almost never get garbage calls. If they start it’s time for a new phone number and phone.
Will need building permit this summer, will have separate phone and number. After work completed phone gets turned off and tossed in a drawer.
Don’t need cold calls from companies offering home improvements.
No, we got rid of it about 8 years.
Landline is all we use since home is where I spend most of my time.
Do not enjoy the tiny text on the cell phone screen.
Alway forget to charge the darn thing.
For safety, have cell phone and only use for long trips, but not while driving.
Nope
Dumped it at least 15 years ago.
Landlines and desktops for me. I don’t do anything on my cell. Only have it for emergencies.
We had two landlines in California, one for phone and one for dial-up internet. After we finally got a cable modem, we used the 2nd line for faxing.
Once we knew we were moving to Nashville, I got a Google voice number with a 615 area code and ported it to my cell phone. When we got settled in, I bought an Obi-talk box that acts like a landline.
..yes, far more reliable than a cell even without emergencies where towers are out of power,etc.
After getting that number back in 1984, moving 4 times and having the area code changed 2 or 3 times, we finally ditched it after 35 years. I wonder what is going to replace the cell phone? And no, it won’t be a watch phone for me.
Our landline is now served via an OOMA box, and we’ve had it at least 10 years. Other than the initial purchase price, the monthly tax is about $3-4 per month. It’s a relatively cheap way to keep a land line. (When the junk calls start piling up, I unplug the OOMA box for a day or two and they go away for a few weeks.)
Wesley, we have the same OOMA box. Works great. Unlimited calls and talk time in US and Canada.
Yes. Cheap to have & call quality superior to cell phone.
I have both. I prefer the clarity of the landline, and pay the monthly minimum because I use it for local calls only. The cell is used for long distance calls and emergencies. I never use the cell for any computer related tasks such as e-mail, and I never text. The keyboard is too small, and repetitive use of the hands and wrists places too much stress on the joints and tendons, it can lead to inflammation, and cause permanent injury such as tendinitis.
No land lines but I do have several sound powered field phones.
I also switched to OOMA about 15 years ago. Really cheap way of keeping the landline number which I’ve had since 1995. It was a huge savings in the beginning because they had free long distance calling. My land line rates were ridiculous.
I was given it “free” when I left pacbell. However, it is almost $10/mo due to fees and freeloader charges.
Not anymore. It’s been about 9 years, Robo Calls made us get rid of the landline. We just use our cell phones and we can block the Robo’s.
Yes and don’t plan to stop using it. Have a cell for my use when I want to call friends and relatives long distance. Also use the GPS when I travel. The message on the cell says it is turned off so I might not respond to a call for several days but leave a message… Otherwise the landline is my “go to” phone.
Have not had a personal land line since I went to college circa 2003.
I still used them for work up until my company phased them out in order to Switch to Zoom Phone riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight before the pandemic began.
I just cancelled mine a few weeks back. I had kept it for so long in case i need to fax something, but haven’t really had to do that for years. With fewer people maintaining their land lines, the cost the maintain the infrastructure has gone up for the remaining land line users. I didn’t feel like I’m getting enough use out of it to continue paying for the increasing cost of the land line.
Yep still got it. Use the number for members rewards at store etc. also it sounds clearer than the cell. It is a hassle with the need for a special cable modem
I just helped my mother switch away from her landline. Her rates had gone to about $100+ per month to have her AT&T line which was exorbitant. She was paying for all the other people that had dropped their landlines awhile ago.
We gave up the landline many years ago.
I do use an internet phone and the cell phone of course.
In case of emergency, I have a sat phone. If that doesn’t work, not much left to worry about.
My husband, because of the nature of his career, was required to have both a land line and a cellular contact. The landline is nice to have for voice-tone clarity and in case there is a national emergency and resultant tower wifi failure, etc..
We only use cell phones when away from the house or sometimes when calling long distance.
Land line here since the year 1921. Really.
We’ve had our landline with the same number for over 40 years and maintain it primarily as a backup. The landline still works during a power outage, We use our cell phones for the majority of our calls and also have high speed internet with a desktop, laptop and tablet, so we’re not tech-averse (actually the opposite).
I ported the land line over to a spare cell 3 years ago then bought a Cell2Jack box so we could use our regular cordless phones and corded phone. It works good.
Yes, because if power goes out and cell towers go down, old low voltage rotary or push button corded phones are king. Answering machine and cordless phones will be powerless. They also are directed on the phone grid directly to you local 911 dispatch, as long as you are not on some funky digital phone service. Check out where your cell phones go to when you call 911……CHP dispatch which can be located in Fresno Ca. depending on where the phone is routed. Good Luck
As an old PT&T/AT&T employee, I think keeping a LL is important. As “Graceful” indicated, when cell links, etc plus the oncoming Progressives are trying to eliminate PG&E what are you going to do when you cannot charge your cell or going totally electric for your vehicle and you have to wait until IT tells you it is charged enough to take off!!
I don’t know how to use a landline.
For me:
Cloud, not paper
Online calendar, not paper
Docs, not Word
Access on any device, not stored on a single device.
And any number of voice platforms over the landline.
I don’t need to take my work computer because I always have my work cloud. Life is easier when you can be at work in the time it takes to boot up and load your browser tabs. This goes for managing my household as well.
With all that said, I think I still have the telephone that my parents bought from “The Phone Company”. That thing is soild, and will still work in 2222, if that platform is still supported. Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
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