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View Poll Results: Do you still use a landline phone in your home?
Yes, but I have wireless too. 59 44.36%
Yes, that is all I use. 7 5.26%
No, I am completely wireless! 67 50.38%
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Old 12-29-2012, 09:54 PM   #1
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Do you still use a landline in your home?

I have never owned a landline phone. When we built our home. I told the builder not to even put phone lines in the house. He did anyway because it was "code". Yeah, that's code for some lobbyist made that decision for me!


I just read a story that said 35.8% of the USA does not have landline phones.

15.9% still have landlines, but they never or rarely use them.

That means 48.2% of people still have landlines and are using them as their main source of phone communication! I thought it would be less!
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Old 12-29-2012, 09:59 PM   #2
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We have them just because of our business is ran from home (we have a horse farm where we live). so mainly just business calls come to the landline...however when I'm at school in college our condo only has our cell phone...so no landline.
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Old 12-29-2012, 10:23 PM   #3
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I have both.....if for no other reason just to have 911 capabilities.....and I can always give the house number to businesses so they don't get my cell number.
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:02 PM   #4
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I have both.....if for no other reason just to have 911 capabilities.....and I can always give the house number to businesses so they don't get my cell number.


Haha, I have a standard fake! It was my grandmothers phone number from when I was a kid. Then just recently, my mother aquiered the same number!
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:23 PM   #5
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Land line for monitoring the alarm. iPhone for work. Please change the maps app!!!
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:31 PM   #6
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:35 PM   #7
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I only use the house phone for taking messages and give the number out so I dont get spammed on the cell.
but ATT has steadily raised it every year to now the house phone is over $30 per month ugghhh.
my kid is almost 30 and never had a landline, I may do the same this year.


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Land line for monitoring the alarm. iPhone for work. Please change the maps app!!!
get the google maps app, it rocks.
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:46 PM   #8
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I only use the house phone for taking messages and give the number out so I dont get spammed on the cell.
but ATT has steadily raised it every year to now the house phone is over $30 per month ugghhh.
my kid is almost 30 and never had a landline, I may do the same this year.




get the google maps app, it rocks.
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:12 AM   #9
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Going on 7 years without a landline.
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:13 AM   #10
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Nope...no home phone. We all just use out mobiles
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:15 AM   #11
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Nope, but only as of last month
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:38 AM   #12
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There is still a landline set of phones in the house, but they are mostly for lengthy calls, in order to reduce minute use.

On a side note, I just got a smartphone worthy of the internet. I had a normal sized and so-so performing android phone, but only the mobile sites were worth the hassle. I just got a galaxy note 2 today and its like using a tablet as a phone. Going from a single core to quad core phone is like going from a prius to a corvette. This phone has twice the RAM of my old computer. Lol

Technology is only going to make landlines more and more obsolete as time goes on.
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:49 AM   #13
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It might good to have if you sell the house. The buyer like to have a land line wired.
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Old 12-30-2012, 01:52 AM   #14
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Just cell phones for the past 12 years
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