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No - never had one | 15 | 3.77% | |
No - chose to give it up | 56 | 14.07% | |
Yes - hardly ever used | 263 | 66.08% | |
Yes - use it a fair bit | 39 | 9.80% | |
Yes - use it all the time | 25 | 6.28% | |
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3 Aug 20, 07:50 AM |
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Ours is included in the broadband package. Was glad of it 3 years ago - my neighbour almost killed themselves falling down some steps outside on New Year's Eve - mobile network was overwhelmed - not a great signal here anyhow. Nipped back and rang the ambulance on the home phone.
It brought home to us that the mobile network is not infallible and perhaps we should keep the home phone plugged in even if just as a back up. |
3 Aug 20, 07:54 AM |
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Join Date: Jan 10
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I always thought emergency service calls took priority over a busy network / could use any networks signal to avoid problems like that. If not, that is worrying!
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3 Aug 20, 08:14 AM |
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3 Aug 20, 08:45 AM |
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We still have ours, but never ever use it. We were with Sky and needed it for the broadband, but we have recently moved to Virgin and it came with the package anyway. On a side note, we were with BT and were paying circ. 25 a month for the landline etc. When we cancelled to transfer to Virgin, I got a letter in the post saying they were giving me £117 back, completely clueless how and why they had this amount in credit given we haven't made calls for about 5 years.
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3 Aug 20, 08:53 AM |
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Yes we have a landline. If it was my choice I would have no phones plugged in, but I live with my mil who uses the landline often. She’s also a nurse and is often on-call and so she like having the landline and mobile so the hospital can get through to her if she’s needed.
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3 Aug 20, 12:31 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 18
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3 Aug 20, 01:18 PM |
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Thank you all. Very helpful.
Am currently with sky fibre will see if we need to keep it for the broadband. I had it in my mind that it also made a difference to things like credit scoring and banks etc ? Or is this just a sign of my age. It used to matter but no longer ? |
3 Aug 20, 03:21 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 12
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I am guessing that you are not at an age of needing to build a credit score and have plenty of other utility and council bills that will more than suffice.
If your Sky broadband is still a fibre to cabinet and not full fibre to house you will still need a landline I believe. |
3 Aug 20, 04:58 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 18
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3 Aug 20, 05:15 PM |
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Join Date: May 13
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The good thing about a landline is in a power cut you can still make calls all the time, a mobile will only hold a charge for a certain time.
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