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Removing your landline (telephone)

Outkastmike

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Anyone else removed there landline ?
We found ourselves using mobiles and relying less on the traditional landline service & we very rarely used it other than receiving the exceptionally rare call.
So we did away with our telephone landline after switching WiFi providers.
BT had been skinning us alive for £90 + per month for a landline & WiFi service that came with loads of unnecessary extras.
We moved over to Vodafone for 5G unlimited WiFi for £23 a month but without a landline service.
 
Just completed our change today. Dropped our exisitng longterm provider due to No.1 son now back home and working from here. He needed something faster than we had and as Virgin had installed fibre optics outside our house several years ago that's what he picked. £26 came in at 2/3 the price of what we had been paying.

We decided we no longer needed a landline phone at the same time, as we all have mobiles even though the signal is a bit weak - one bar usualy. The mobile phones are supposed to be able to make calls over the Wifi when the phone signal is too weak also.
 
Yep, got rid of ours when we moved just under four years ago. In the new house (on a new development) they only had BT broadband, cable, etc. So we signed up for broadband, tv and home phone. The home phone option was internet phone only, not traditional phone line. Despite couple of visits, various connection tests, etc, after three months they (BT) could never get the bloody thing to work!
So refund on the home phone bit of the contract and just stuck with normal mobiles for me and the wife and TBH, we don't miss the home line, in our old house no-one ever used to ring us on it anyway, mostly using mobiles even back then.
When everyone has a personal mobile device, seems a bit old hat now to have a dedicated home phone TBH?
 
We got rid of our recently with a change in broadband. The only person ( apart from scammers and cold callers ) that ever called it was my mum to tell us that her newspaper hadn’t been delivered - ironically from her mobile, that had our number as her local newsagents.
 
Unplugged mine 13 years ago, the day my Mum died.

She had been in a hospice that would only call land line numbers. Every morning around 6-7 am a scammer would call, usual thing, thick Indian accent and English name.

Problem being every time I picked up the phone I was expecting to be told Mum had died.

The second I didn't have to have it, it was gone. BT wouldn't deal with the callers, so I did.
 
Mobile phone reception is patchy in the oldest part of our house (which has thick & solid walls), so we had to wait for WiFi calling to be supported for both our handsets before being able to ditch the landline. Our mobile provider is Lebara, who operate on the Vodafone network. My phone (a late model Google Pixel) was supported for WiFi calling on Vodafone, but not Lebara?! It was a 'known issue' but took some time to get sorted (6 months or so?). All fine once that was fixed - the phones automatically switch between 4G (no 5G round here) and WiFi for calls as you move round the house and the signal strengths vary. Plusnet broadband only - they are actually part of BT but their rates are much lower. Full fibre not available in our area and no planned date for it to be provided :( No airband reception either :(
 
When I last looked it was often cheaper to have the landline and the broadband rather than just broadband if costs were a major decider but it may have changed now.



Do I need a landline for broadband?​


There was a time when a landline was essential for every home, but nowadays, most of us rely on our mobile phones for calls. So many are wondering if they still need their landline for their broadband connection.

Technically you don't need a landline to have broadband, but packages that require you to have or get one do tend to be the cheapest. So it could still be worth getting a landline connection, even if you don't intend to use it.




I will be looking into it again as we only ever get nuisance calls on the landline or my wife's parents who have been told call our mobiles. Every one else that contacts us uses our mobiles . I stopped using the landline number on my CV years ago also.
 
No landline here when I moved in nearly 3 years ago.

Cannot say I have missed it.

Always had a landline in my previous houses.
 
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