3 in 10 Get All or Most Calls on Cell Phones

[macattack]

Where we live AT&T coverage is excellent and I very, very seldom get dropped calls. I also buy top-notch phones, so voice quality is also quite good. I successfully convinced my wife about 2.5 years ago to get rid of our land-line. We were taking almost all of our personal calls on the mobile phones. The only time our land-line rang, was telemarketers. We almost never picked up the land-line phone because we used an answering machine to screen calls. I asked myself why we were paying for both but only using one. I haven't had any problems at all getting by without a land-line.

[macattack]

Where we live AT&T coverage is excellent and I very, very seldom get dropped calls. I also buy top-notch phones, so voice quality is also quite good. I successfully convinced my wife about 2.5 years ago to get rid of our land-line. We were taking almost all of our personal calls on the mobile phones. The only time our land-line rang, was telemarketers. We almost never picked up the land-line phone because we used an answering machine to screen calls. I asked myself why we were paying for both but only using one. I haven't had any problems at all getting by without a land-line.

[eriqcook]

Originally Posted by Rob Alexander

We keep the land line because that's the one we don't have to answer. Businesses, charities and various irritating people all get that number and only a select few get our mobile numbers. We freely ignore the ringing on the land line, and are ruthless in screening with the caller ID, but we always answer our mobiles. I would probably get rid of the land line altogether except then I would have no number to give to stores and businesses except for my mobile and I don't want to do that. I am playing around with Google Grand Central, though, and once it settles in and is out of beta, I'll consider using it as our main number and getting rid of the land line.

Google Grand Central??? Sounds interesting. I'll have to look into it....

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by rlobrecht

We also have a landline, which gets used almost every day (mostly by my wife.) Besides reliability, call quality, and cost, the other reason to have a landline is E911 and kids. Assuming your kids can remember your address in a crisis situation is not a good assumption. Assuming they can remember to dial 911 or hit the cross, fire, or police badge button on the phone is a pretty good bet. E911 doesn't work on cell phones.

we only use cellphones in my house but we keep a couple of my old cellphones around and charged in case of an emergency. we also wrote our address on the back of them and taught my daughter how to spell it out for an operator if need be if there was an emergency.