Why do you have to own a mobile phone to join CC?

I am totally unconcerned if my mobile number gets stolen. 

What? You couldn't make it up.

It's not about prevention is it? An example, you're out for the day and the weather turns bad, your awnings half wrecked and the poles are about to pierce the caravan. I suppose you'd be happy to return to site to find that damage then? No one really goes that far from site on a day out so you just may be able to return to just maybe limit the size of your insurance claim?

As I've said before, I care not if I have a number or not, I'll attempt to make safe your outfit to prevent harm to others, and then I'll await your return.

JK

Indeed I have done the same for fellow caravanners (with help from the warden in high winds).

it's so the marketing department can sell your number 

If so nobody must wish to call my number to sell things then as I do not get unsolicited calls to my mobile.

Thinking about it maybe no body does want to sell me anything as I average less than 1 unsolicited call a year on my land line over the last 10 years.

Hi

If you care to read a bit further up thread, I clearly stated that the club do not sell, give or divulge any members personal details with any  third party. That will never change.

JK

I have a mobile and have no problem giving it to Cc.

Calm yourself!

Technical standards for telecommunications are researched and defined globally as an aid to compatibility. These standards are by necessity, researched and defined years before the hardware is manufactured for public use. Late in the last millennium, the vision was of "fixed - mobile convergence" i.e. A unique personal phone number which would allow you to be contacted, if you wished, anywhere in the world, as well as at home. With ever widening mobile network coverage, the exclusive use of mobile phones is becoming a growing reality. I'm retired and we've retired our landline phone to the loft, terrestrial connection being exclusively for super fast fibre. Both of my children and very many of their friends have also chosen to adopt mobile communications exclusively.

There can be little long term future for fixed line telephony outside of business environments. Much of our modern technology has found its introduction criticised by people who were unwilling to change, yet it is universally adopted in time - as mobile phones are fast becoming.

Forget going to work by horse, stop rubbing washing on a washboard, use remote control to change channels on your TV, and switch on the central heating. Oh, and have a good think about the many benefits of that unique global phone number for contacting you wherever you are. If you don't want to be called, then switch it off, or better still set up its profile for only accepting calls from selected numbers. Mobile phones are today's reality and the future too.

Jenny

Whilst I don't disagree with much of what you are saying which as you say is fast becoming a reality. I think a lot of people will still stay with a landline until they can be certain that they have a reliable phone signal. Although I live in a built up area the signal strength is still not good enough for me to hand in my land line, especially inside the house. Perhaps the main point you were making is that the separation between a landline phone and a mobile phone has faded to such an extent that people should think of them as the same thing not two different systems which is inferred in the OP's post?

David