Rural Living- Landline or Cell or Both

[jayste]

Fellow TBN'ers. I'm curious how many of you have taken the dive as we have and dropped the landline all together and kept the cell service as your main form of communication. Our landline got up to $70 per month for only telephone service and we finally said forget it about 3 yrs ago. Anyway, how many others have made the leap?

Jay

 

[coreshot]

I made the jump a couple years ago, and haven't looked back. The only calls that ever came to my landline were telemarketers, everyone that I wanted to talk to just called my cell.

The problem I have now is-phone finally became available at my cabin property, in an area where cell service is spotty at best. I know as soon as I sign up for a landline, a cell tower will be built in the area. This is just how things work for me. Of course if I don't bite, there will never be a cell tower...

 

[tallyho8]

My wife and I both have cell phones but I kept our landline which only costs us $12 a month. I like to be listed in the phone book where my old friends can still find me. There have been many times I wanted to phone an old school buddy or friend that I haven't seen in 20 years and have not been able to find them even using Google when they are not in the book.

 

[tanglefoot]

We still have our landline which costs $50 per month average. Plus my wife carries her cell phone which is $35 per month. I have a pre-paid cell phone which I pay .10 per min when I use it, which isn't much.
Butch

 

[Steve C]

Fellow TBN'ers. I'm curious how many of you have taken the dive as we have and dropped the landline all together and kept the cell service as your main form of communication. Our landline got up to $70 per month for only telephone service and we finally said forget it about 3 yrs ago. Anyway, how many others have made the leap?

Jay

Cell phones only at our place for the last 3 or 4 years. The only advantage I can see with a land line is if you have one with a cord you won't loose it because it is attached to the house

Last year my wife dropped her cell phone while getting out of the truck into 6inches of fresh snow. She didn't notice that it was missing. I plowed the driveway later that day. We looked everywhere for her phone for about a month, we used my phone to call hers but we couldn't hear it ring under the 4foot of stacked snow and ice. We finally gave up and went and got her a new one. About 4 months later when the snow melted I found her old Nokia sticking out of a pile of snirt.
I let it dry out for a couple of days charged it up and it works fine. So now we have a spare.

 

[blueriver]

Both here, the landline is $17 a month and being such a small community folks look me up by name in the local directory.

 

[woodchuckie]

Keeping the land line because of DSL and weak signal on the cell. I have the cell calls forwarded to the land line after 10 seconds and just talk on the land line.

 

[Tig]

No land line here.
Cell for personal and an IP phone for business.

 

[MossRoad]

We still have a land line because cell service inside the house has weak signal. I also like the phone in the kitchen, dining room, bedroom, basement and garage. The garage phone doubles as the pool phone in summer, and that is a must-have for safety.

I also like the RING of a "real" phone.

One other thing I like is when a relative calls my wife can be on one phone and I can pick up the extension and all of us can hear each other without having to use a speaker phone.

I have been curious about this device... the dock and talk , which allows you to dock a cell phone and use all of the existing extension phones in your house through your cell connection. Anyone have one or something similar?

 

[Highbeam]

We cut the phone lines and use the coaxial cable line for internet, phone, and TV. Wife has a cell phone, prepaid. 35$ a month for unlimited calls is hard to beat.