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Opposite way round here in Hull, landline quality is terrible, my EE mobile on the other hand is excellent.
Yes, I still use a landline, despite having had a mobile continuously for .... well, the early days of analog cellular service. So, 30 years?
And no, before some wag suggests it, not the same mobile phone all that time.
But I neither need nor want to be reachable 24/7, whether at home or elsewhere. So I don't need a mobile phone that's always on. And as a result, I'm certainly not paying £x/month for a contract.
I do need a home line, not least as an internet prerequisite, so have a 24/7 calling package on it. I very rarely call mobile numbers, and a very limited list of people have landline phone number. I rarely get unsolocited calls on it these days, but I did go through a spate of them, which is why I now have a TrueCall blocker on it, meaning I never actually talk to the rare really persistant spam caller as TrueCall handles them.
It's horses for courses. Extensive mobile use doesn't suit my needs, and a landline does. Others may have different needs.
Exactly my situation with landline, just get scams/marketing calls. I am not always very pleasant with these people.
Trouble is i've had the phone number for over 20 years, too many people know it, even if they never call it.
My landline is so noisy as to be unusable, but to call anybody out might entail moving a bookcase, not an easy task in a wheelchair, so I just stopped using it.
Still have a landline.
Still use it daily.
Mobile service in and around my home is very poor at best, despite the BS served up by the coverage maps which suggest perfect 4G coverage.
Same here.
Only place I use a landline is work.
At work, we use VOIP desk phones plus Skype for Business.
At home, I rent a VOIP line (cannot have internet access without it), but I have not had a physical phone in years. As such, I have not use a landline for years.
However, I understand people use landlines when they want to have lengthy conversations. I am forgetting what it is to use a smartphone to call somebody these days.
I still pay line rental in order to receive broadband at home
The sooner affordable Wi-Fi comes out then we can all do away with the B.T.RIP OF PHONE LINE
the tech: is here to do this NOW but big business stops this.
just the same as the price we pay for fuel, it could be a lot more affordable, with other methods but again the big corporations stop this because they would lose BILLIONS
Tom G
That's moee or less why I got the call screener (Truecall), though I've since changed number anyway. The downside is the one-off cost (about £100). There are much cheaper versions but I don't know how well they work. Truecall is, IMHO, extremely effective and is also pretty highly configurable. It monitors all calls and puts whitelisted ones thtough so smoothly the caller won't know they've been screened. Blacklisted numbers are simply blocked and you won't know they've tried to call you. Unknown numbers? It depends hpw you set it up but I have it getting the caller to leave an identifying name, then it puts them on hold and calls me, where I can either accept the call or block it. If I block it, the caller cannot know if they've been blocked or if I simply wasn't in.
Silent callers get two chances to leave that identifying name, and if they don't, are disconnected. When you choose what to do with a call, you can :-
- acceot, this time only, or
- block, this time only, or
- accept and whitelist, or
- block and blacklist.
You can also choose, in advance, what to do with certain call categories, like withheld, international, etc. I chose to screen ALL unknown numbers, but I could just as easily auto-reject "withheld" while screening international, etc.
For those that do, for whatever reason, rely on a landline and that are plagued with nuisance calls, my experience is it either dries the flood up to a trickle or stops them cold. Even that trickle only get to leave a message you can react to before the call is either put through or rejected, but cannot EVER speak to you until you choose to accept the call.
The vast majority of cold and silent callers seem to simply give up on you, because they know full well that snybody that's bothered to put in such a system is extremely unlikely to be a productive use of their time.
Also, there is a BT phone system you can get, at about £40, that includes a version of Truecall. I don't know if it's the full Truecall, though I doubt it, but it certainly seems to include the core call-blocking functions. The full Truecall is capable of much more, including remote configuration and programming, and even call recording for trahsfer to PC call archive. So you dan record and keep calls to, for instance, banks, insurance companies, utility companies, etc, or when you place a telephone product order. It's great for resolving disputes over exactly what was or wasn't said.
The biggest songle factor, by far, in fuel prices is tax. Over quite some years, and depending on market conditions and prices, between aboyt 55% and 80% of what you pay in petrol/diesel prices, at least here in the UK, is either fuel duty or VAT.
Stick £50 in your tank, and around £30-£40 of it goes straight to the Treasury.
Nope, don't even have a landline phone set. But I still have to pay for line rental which I find ridiculous. If anyone needs me I can always be contacted on my mobile through text/call/skype/steam/facebook
The massive downside to Truecall is that you have to pay £20 a year for the internet control panel or otherwise set up is extremely tedious. Truecall loses its settings once the power supply is switched off.
I now much prefer recording calls on my mobile phone these days. Surprisingly, calls are much shorter after you informed them they're being recorded. For reasons unknown to me, I like to elongate the call as much as possible while they're squirming to get off the line. Recorded calls are protected behind a password and are easy to upload to cloud.
What I may do in future is to get a dedicated mobile phone with a recorded app for sole use with companies. These days, companies are so desperate to get hold of your contact details. I could, perhaps, link my mobile device to Google Voice to monitor missed calls and voicemail messages to my main handset. Therefore, eliminating the need to carry two handsets around.
Truecall is good as I had mine for a number of years and cost me 70 quid but these days there are far better solutions.
Last edited by Top_gun; 24-09-2016 at 12:58 PM.
I ring virgin media when it goes tits up as they know who I am then
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
For home yes. You need it for Broadband, I'm not signing with Virgin anytime soon.
For work I'm considering cancelling it altogether as soon as my contract expires due to service issues.
Can't quite remember when I got rid of my land line, but it must be about 10 years ago by now.
I was checking out http://aa.net.uk/ and one of the downsides was that, annoying though the phone may often be, it sounds like I would lose the voice on my BT copper line.
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