About 73% of American adults lived in a household without a landline at the end of last year

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I still have a home landline because at times the radiant barrier at home interfer with cell reception. Lately i am getting too many scam calls and I am getting close to dumping the landline

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[Skittles]

1. I keep a landline

I often have useless conference calls on it in the background.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. We dumped ours when my father in law died.

He was in Italy and it was just easier for him to pick up the phone and dial than mess around with Skype.

[dem4decades]

3. Still have one, I get a better cable bi) with it. My drunk neighbor Still calls it,

And I'm not giving him my cell number.

[MichMan]

4. Got rid of mine years ago, but had the landline number transferred to my cell phone for continuity

[brush]

9. Now that's a good idea. Never thought of that.

I'll mull it over, could save a few bucks a month. I live in a part of the country without hurricane threats, tornadoes, floods or wildfires that could take out cell coverage (southern NV).

I just might have to do that.

[LenaBaby61]

16. "But had the landline number transferred to my cell phone for continuity."

I ditched my landline also, with an assist from my niece and her husband.

I've been around or had landline all my adult life (I'm 62). But, my niece and her husband called a few months ago and asked me if it's okay with you me and hubs you to join us on Verizon--We'll add you. I wasn't paying that much for landline, but still to have my niece and her hubs think of me, and like you I transferred my landline number to my 5G cell phone which they also bought new for me. They also added me to their Amazon Prime membership. I helped to raise my 2 nieces and 2 nephews and you never know if they'll give you the time of day or even drop a phone call on you when they age. Hey, they have their lives to live and I get it. But they realize that I'm the last member of the original family (As my parents and much older siblings are all now deceased). I have friends who helped raise their nephews/nieces & they tell me that they pay them dust. I'm blessed that my 2 nieces and 2 nephews include me into their lives, and that their spouses/children accept me also. Them helping their "old" auntie out whenever possible, I mean wow

[MANative]

5. We got rid of ours about 2 years ago

Had kept it only because our security system used it for emergency dialing. We upgraded our system to use a built-in satellite phone so it was no longer needed. The only incoming calls we got for years were spam. No more unwanted dinner time calls and saved $60/month. Yay!

[Elessar Zappa]

6. Got rid of ours in 2010, I believe.

[Beastly Boy]

7. I keep a landline for one good reason:

So the robocall bots can have meaningful conversations with my answering machine.

[tritsofme]

8. My wife couldn't bear to lose the old number, so it forwards to her cell.

And she gets loaded with way more junk calls than people who happen to remember our very old number.

We haven’t had actual land line phones for over a decade.

[MichMan]

14. I had my landline number transferred to the cell phone when I got rid of the landline

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I do like being polled

Over the last two years, I have been polled about five times. Two were robo polls and three were live person polls. I was polled twice on the issue school vouchers (one was a robo poll and one was live action poll). Abbott and company have been really pushing school voucher plans for this last session of the Texas legis

[Emile]

11. We did away with our landline over ten years ago. Whenever it rained

you would have static in the line for days. Phone company would never update the lines.

[Pathwalker]

12. I bought a spam blocking landline. Comes with 5000 numbers already installed,

snd you can add hundreds more. Now, we only get calls from people WE don't block! I enjoy the blessed silence.

[SunSeeker]

13. We still have our landline. It is the household's number.

It costs us about $40. It's worth it for us. The cells are just for the individuals in our household. We've had the landline number since 1991, and it's on so many accounts and agencies that we don't want to get rid of it. But we are an anachronism. My son will never have a landline when he gets his own place.

[Shermann]

15. Bought a house in 2010 and never had one there

The cell coverage wasn't great at the time, but I was committed to cutting the cord and got a femtocell.

[IzzaNuDay]

17. living in a Cell Phone dead zone

i have to make phone calls and my cell will break up and fail. micro cell doesn’t help. will keep landline until the technology improves.

[Pompoy]

19. I wish I still had a landline for 911 calls

But when I dropped cable it got too expensive, so I transferred that number to my cellphone.
Over the years I had called it a couple of times and it was immediate response.
Plus they could trace the call much faster, etc.
These days I'm not sure if I should call 911 or direct to the local police department for quicker response in an emergency.
I have always meant to ask the police department which would be the better option but still haven't done that.
Anybody here knows better and can inform me?

[ecstatic]

20. Yeah. I took the plunge at least 14 years ago.

If anyone has safety concerns: I called 911 twice during my cell only lifestyle--it wasn't an issue at all. Cops arrived pretty quickly and that was at least 11 years ago. I'm pretty sure emergency technology has improved since then.

[ShazzieB]

21. We still have a landline, but not by my choice.

My husband is the one who can't bring himself to part with it. I'm afraid the only way I may ever get rid of it (and the cable TV service) is by prying them both out of his cold, dead hands some day!

For such a scientifically oriented guy, he's a real luddite about certain things.