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Anyone NOT have a landline?

If so, how did you make the switch?  Transfer your home # to your cell?  Tell everyone to use your cell #?  Drop down to the bare minimum rate offered by your home phone company?  Something else?  And how is it talking on a little cell phone all the time vs a handset?  Although our cordless handsets are not much bigger than my first cell phone, so why is it even a concern for me??
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Re: Anyone NOT have a landline?

  • We have one but just for our alarm system.  I NEVER EVER use it.  We always use our cell phones.  We just communicated out our cell numbers to everyone.  But I really don't talk on my cell all that much so its not a huge issue for me.  I think its a great decision.  I wouldn't have one at all if it wasnt for our alarm!
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  • We dropped our land line about 2 years ago and haven't given it a second thought. We both had cell #s already and we just completely cancelled the home phone (we were switching cell phone & internet providers away from our phone company at the same time) and kept the cell #s. Most people in our lives already had both #s and knew that we usually answered the cell phones but not so much on the land line.

    I did run a test call to 911 to make sure they had both of our cell phones tied to our home address for emergency purposes.

  • I have not had a landline in years! I always use my cell so it works for me and it saved me money not having a home phone
  • We also haven't had a landline in years. I realized that I only used my cell and the only people that called on the landline was our parents or solicitors so it was a no-brainer to get rid of it. Everyone we talked to had our cell numbers anyway so it wasn't an issue to get rid of it.

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  • We cancelled our landline almost 2 years ago. We didn't use it that often anyway so it wasn't a big deal. The only people who called our home phone was our parents and telemarketers. We just made sure to communicate to everyone that we were dropping the home phone and to only use our cell. I love not having a home phone. 1 less bill to pay and no more annoying phone calls!
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  • We only have a land line for alarm system communication, nothing else.  There isn't even a phone in the house.  We only use our cells.  Its been that way for years so it wasn't anything complicated for us.  I will be making a switch sooner than later to do wireless communication for our alarm system, too, just not something I'm ready to mess w/ right now.

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  • imageanotapotamus:

    We dropped our land line about 2 years ago and haven't given it a second thought. We both had cell #s already and we just completely cancelled the home phone (we were switching cell phone & internet providers away from our phone company at the same time) and kept the cell #s. Most people in our lives already had both #s and knew that we usually answered the cell phones but not so much on the land line.

    I did run a test call to 911 to make sure they had both of our cell phones tied to our home address for emergency purposes.

    I didn't know you could do this.  How did you do it?  Just dial 911 and says whoops no emergency just want to make sure my cell # is tied to our house.  LOL no offense.  That's the first thing that popped in my head.  I thought they could do this but cleary times have changed.  This would make me feel so much better.

  • We only have cell phones. Granted we have only ever had cell phones since we moved out of parents houses over 6-9 years ago so I wouldn't know what to do with one.
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  • I haven't had a landline since 2002, besides moving in with my parents for 6 months after college, but I don't think I even used their landline, just my cell. I don't see a good enough reason to pay for one. I'm not a big phone talker either; I make phone calls when I need something, but I'm not at all one of those people who will call someone just to chat.
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  • imageMrs42509:
    imageanotapotamus:

    We dropped our land line about 2 years ago and haven't given it a second thought. We both had cell #s already and we just completely cancelled the home phone (we were switching cell phone & internet providers away from our phone company at the same time) and kept the cell #s. Most people in our lives already had both #s and knew that we usually answered the cell phones but not so much on the land line.

    I did run a test call to 911 to make sure they had both of our cell phones tied to our home address for emergency purposes.

    I didn't know you could do this.  How did you do it?  Just dial 911 and says whoops no emergency just want to make sure my cell # is tied to our house.  LOL no offense.  That's the first thing that popped in my head.  I thought they could do this but cleary times have changed.  This would make me feel so much better.

    Yup. Pretty much. The first words out of my mouth were "This is a non-emergency call. I need to verify that the address tied to this phone line is correct." She verified. "Thanks." Done.

  • We have never had a landline. We've always just used our cell phones to communicate.
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