anyone cancelled theirs
now every one has their own personal communicator is there a need for a landline anymore
we are thinking of cancelling ours are there any downsides to doing this

We have no signal in areas of our house so a landline is essential. I live in Caernarfon – not exactly rural back end of north wales!

If we got rid of the landline I wouldnt know which phone o ignore to keep away from the cold callers.

Not having a landline can reduce your credit rating if you’re wanting a loan IIRC

On the subject. How many phone numbers do you have. I’m sat here with my own mobile, my works mobile and a cordless phone. Surely that’s too many phone numbers for one person.

You can only get broadband (DSL) with a BT land-line where I live, otherwise I’d dump ours.

Yeah we’ve binned ours. Me, wife and kids all got mobiles, cancelled virgin tv, so just watch freeview and pay for internet only now.

Haven’t come across any downsides yet. On giffgaff too so 0800 numbers are free too.

10 miles outside Oxford & a few hundred metres from a major trunk route and the mobile signal is appalling, irrespective of network.

It’s part of our package with Virgin, and they set the plans up so it’s no cheaper not to have one. I rarely use it though.

We got rid of our landline phone 6 years ago.
We retain the line rental for broadband.

landline was hardly used as all our contacts both business & personal would be given our mobile numbers only and non-uk originating spam calls were getting annoying.

landline here is used for the router, has been for ten years.

The only thing plugged into the landline is the broadband router.

The only thing plugged into the landline is the broadband router.

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The only thing plugged into the landline is the broadband router

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EDIT – actually, that’s a lie – the only thing plugged in is an ADSL MODEM – the router is separate…

The only thing plugged into the landline is the broadband router

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I was gonna get rid of mine (virgin broadband) but they persuaded me to keep it for 50p a month extra.
And my mother is the only person that rings me on it so I know when to not answer 🙂