Rex Kramer wrote:Or should I just join the current century and only have mobiles.
I do contact details checks for every patient I see so I have this conversation with people quite often when they tell my where they do/don't have landlines/mobiles. In my experience landlines are, as you'd expect, dying out. This is pretty much true of everyone apart from the very elderly, a few luddites-and-prouds, and the people in the rural parts of our catchment who have no reception. Of the patients who say they don't have a mobile, some are definitely telling me no because they don't want to give their number out (we're the NHS mate, if we were selling your data we'd be able to pay junior doctors
)
Personally we'd bin off our landline service in a second, but whenever we ask Virgin Media they tell us it's actually cheaper to have it than not! We did have a landline in the kitchen (the only people who ever called us were VM
). However in November we got moved over to VoIP so now we need to plug our 1980s BT Viscount (
) into the router which is next to the telly - just no!
Do you really need a landline? As I say, personally I would bin it off in a second. If you use your phone for work and want a separate line then I'd be surprised if your couldn't get a more versatile set up for less money by switching to mobile. If you have
zero reception in your area, specific tech that needs copper wiring (e.g. an emergency button) or an elderly relative who wouldn't cope with a number change when calling you then fair enough, but they're the only reasons I can think of that someone on the fence like yourself would go out of their way to keep their landline.