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

DD, email addresses are another consideration.

i have an old 'freeserve' address (we were with lineone, wanadoo, freeserve, orange now EE) which might not be supported if we were to dump the landline....though if we were to go over to contract phone with EE with loads of data (currently with Vodafone) they might play ball.

we also have gmail addresses which would continue unchanged.

We use quite a mixture of suppliers but the BT landline rental seems to be the most expensive bit. Where we live mobile phone usage can be patchy, ours is ok, our neighbour's isn't. It makes me realise that people in good signal/broadband areas have a better deal all round.

...they certainly have more choice, Brue....especially if there is more than one mobile provider that gives good 3/4g reception.

I can't see me giving up a landline. I much prefer to use a landline telephone as I can hear it ring anywher in the house and garden. I don't carry my mobile around with me at home. The mobile signal would have to a whole lot better as well as often in the house it can be quite poor. I have fibre broadband and given the mobile signal strength I doubt I will ever get anywhere near the download speeds I get with the landline. Also the data allowance via a mobile would have to be a whole lot better. The reverse of this view was when my son moved into a new house and his mobile signal was faster and more reliable than the landline. I suppose at the end of the day its horse for courses and no one solution will suit everyone.

David

Nellie, has anyone or any organisation tried to insist that you have a landline before you can use their service, etc?  Also what email provider do you use? 

Have had that in the past, eg when I tried for a CC Crdit Card a long while ago, but I think that they now accept mobile numbers. We are on 3 Mobile and can get 4G at times. We've used it all round the country, although occasionally at times it is difficult to get a signal. The mifi has a good enough signal for me, at home, to use both the laptop upstairs and OH the i-pad downstairs.

WE couldn't go without a landline as the signal for mobiles in our village is rubbish, we need it for the internet aswell.

Interesting thread this.

I wondered about getting some sort of 'mi-fi' package for home and just use our mobiles for calls. We get wn excellnt Three signal at home.

But could a PC use a mi-fi?

And what sort of packages are available i.e. how much internet access for how much? I'd need to be able to use the PC and a couple of tablets and connect YouView TV and sometimes NOW TV.  

I'll have to do some research on this.

You can connect your PC and tablets to a mi-fi dongle. Some dongles can also be connected to a router to extend your options. 

When we were looking a few months ago Three were offering 20gb for around £20 a month. This could be an issue if you stream a lot of video. 

We need our landline for our super slow 4mbps broadband as we can't get Virgin in our estate. I don't think we have used the house phone more than a couple of times in the last year. 

Certainly where we live the speed of mobile wifi is much less than the 14mb we get on standard broadband. Even if it was fast enough, as we download a fair bit of TV and films, any package would have to be unlimited, as an hour of HD can be 2gb, which would rapidly eat into most allowances.