Originally Posted by
Saracen
I use the landline FAR more than a mobile. That said, I don't even use the landline much. In short, I don't make it easy to get me on the phone, unless you are family or friend that I want to get me.
Calls to my landline run through a call monitor/blocker, on which the blocking is set to either high, or if circumstances require, very high. That latter setting is when ALL calling numbers not specified on my whitelist get blocked.
My mobile number is only known to a very few people, and is rarely turned on except when I need it, or am specifically expecting an incoming call.
My objective is to only get calls I want, such as family and friends. I certainly don't EVER want to be pestered by unsolicited commercial calls, and that includes telesales calls from the likes of my own bank, telecom provider, utility company, insurance company, etc, all of whom have attracted considerable ire from me in the past, when they did have my number, by using it for telesales purposes despite being specifically instructed not to. Now, none of those organisations have my landline number.
In short, I put quite a high value in not being pestered, a high value on, other than family and friends, not being contactable easily, or indeed, not contactable at all, by phone.