Living without a landline - Can you/Do you do it?

I know a lot of people who have done away with their landline but it is not for us.  I hate talking on a mobile and much prefer the landline and Mr H is hard of hearing so has real trouble with a mobile phone.  I do know some younger people who say that they only keep their landline in order to speak to their mother!

Most broadband suppliers insist you have a landline to access their services.

so how do you access the net without a landline broadband connection at reasonable speeds.

i realise you can access via a mobile network,but not at comparable speeds.

We very rarely use the land line phone, but need it for the broadband Internet, so it has to stay. 

We have taken a 2 year deal with SSE that gives us landline and broadband for £12 per month, with weekend calls included.

We only use it for weekend calls as it is expensive otherwise.

Then we moved both our mobiles to 3, just PAYG sims as we are not big mobile users either,  It is still cheaper to use the mobile to call than the landline.

We use internet a lot when at home, so a mobile package for that would be no use to us.

We were always with BT before, but their prices became rediculous.

Interesting thread, we are still not on fast broadband round here, our landline costs seems to go up all the time. Thanks for the info Kj it might be worth checking out.

It was a deal rated the best  at the time on MSE , OH is a big  MSE fan.

Not sure what we will do when the deal runs out though.

The BB is not super-fast as we are quite far from the exchange, but fast enough for us.

I expect you've heard that the southwest is a bit slow on superfast connections. But we live in hope.

We are on the most basic landline deal packaged with our Virgin Media subscription.  As we tend to have mobile contracts with 'free minutes', we make it a house rule to use our mobile for phone calls until the minutes run out.  When that happens we use each others mobile.  Only if all mobile minutes are exhausted to we use the landlines.   We tandem to keep the landline just in case of emergency - if we can't get mobile signal then the landlines is a back-up.

David

Yes a landline is needed for Broadband but you don't need to add a phone contract to it,we are getting rid of our landline,I'll miss talking to all those lovely folk offering to fix my windows

Yes a landline is needed for Broadband but you don't need to add a phone contract to it,we are getting rid of our landline,I'll miss talking to all those lovely folk offering to fix my windows

.......give them time and they'll start ringing your mobile instead.  I get the odd few....

David