I do as well as us both having mobiles, a lot of my friends have got rid of their landlines but I'm loathe to do this ( dunno why)
Internet goes through a landline , doesn't it?
Can't live without it Bobbi. We have bad reception in our village for mobiles generally and where we live there is simply no signal. I have told and told banks etc., etc. that there is no point in using a mobile number - but they still keep demanding it and using it. On the point of going in and threatening them! Mobiles only go on when we are out.
Yes I still have my landline phone, it's my main phone. I have a small mobile phone that I've had for donkeys years and I take that out with me in case I need it in an emergency. It isn't a smart phone, so doesn't have the internet on it, but I don't need the internet when I'm out.
In the UK it is, so far as I understand, impossible to have internet on it's own (tell me if I am wrong) and thus we have a landline with phone and internet. In our case the phone is there for incoming calls but we bypass the provider by using a VOIP service which is far cheaper than any contract that includes call costs ("included" or "free" calls). As royfromaus says, any calls made on a individual charge regime is hugely expensive.
I have a landline phone but it's never plugged in. 2 days after having it installed in order to get broadband package (BT), i was getting nuisance calls. I didn't even know my own number at that time but lots of cold callers sure did.
Should have added, my broadband is now with Vodafone and i do not pay a charge for the landline, making it £20 per month cheaper than the BT package i was using.
I have not had a landline plugged in for several years - makes me cross that we are forced to pay for it to get broadband. You would have thought that by now they would have come up with a system where you could have broadband without having to pay for a landline you don't want. I pay less than a tenner a month for my mobile with plenty of data and unlimited calls so would never use a landline even if I had one plugged in.