Do you use your mobile phone as your main home phone?

[SuperSnake2012]

We were considering getting rid of our land line and just using our cell phones but we still have it. Everyone in my family has a phone now so we just call each other with the free mobile to mobile minutes Our bills would be extremely high if my aunts and uncles used other providers

 

[bousozoku]

The only good thing about my landline is that I can talk and talk and talk and it doesn't cost anything extra.

I'm considering dumping it and BellSouth because it costs quite a lot for something that mostly receives annoying calls. When I want to make a call, I generally use my mobile phone, especially because of this area. We dial 10 digit phone numbers, unless of course, it's long distance. Mobile carriers don't care but it's an inconvenience to dial 10, listen to the message, hang up, and dial 11.

With the advent of speedier internet access over mobile phones, I want to be and can be free of the landline.

 

[YS2003]

I will try out the cell phone a few weeks before I cancel my current land line (even though that land line is not function for the last 3 months). I am already wasting $30 month on the land line and another $50 to $100 a month does not affect me that much anyway. I checked out Treo with Cingular service. I think I will go with that as I can use BT to hook it up with my Mac/PC and serf the net with Palm's web broswer. Even though the current problem I have with my land line is not entirely caused by Verizon, I think I will sack Verizon (simply because of the affiliation with my current problem) and go with a different provider such as Cingular. However, I am weary about 2 year service contract as I want to have an option to fire the company if it is not up to my expectation and not performing as it promised at the time of service agreement.

 

[floriflee]

I think Cingular has a 30 day trial period where you can cancel your service within that time period without any of the cancellation fees. Hopefully that will give you some comfort.

 

[question fear]

Even though the current problem I have with my land line is not entirely caused by Verizon, I think I will sack Verizon (simply because of the affiliation with my current problem) and go with a different provider such as Cingular. However, I am weary about 2 year service contract as I want to have an option to fire the company if it is not up to my expectation and not performing as it promised at the time of service agreement.

1) There is a 30 day trial on Cingular, as with almost all cell companies.

2) Big advantage to cingular is rollover: I have 2000+ rollover minutes banked because most of my friends have cingular. The big benefit is that since this is my only phone right now, on a month where I am calling a lot of people mid-day (for example, since my car got hit and I'm spending time on the phone with ins. companies and body shops), I'm not sweating running over my 450 min per month, because I have a HUGE bank. The downside is slightly less anytime minutes than a comparable plan from another carrier.

3) An advantage to GSM phones (Tmobile and Cingular) over Verizon and Sprint is that your SIM card from a GSM phone can get slapped into another phone so you don't have to go through the painstaking phone number transcription game when you buy or replace a phone. Also, if your phone dies or needs an upgrade and you can't get one through your carrier there is always the "unlocked" market...where you pay more than you would for a new contract phone but way less than you would to replace it through your cell company.

FWIW I haven't utilized a local phone in 4 years. I've had one at apartments, but mostly my roommates have used them and I've just pulled out my cell for everything.

 

[ejb190]

I have a home phone, an office phone, a personal cell, and a work cell. And I really don't care to be that connected.

I thought about ditching the home line, but I like having the back up to the cell phones and a local line. My cell is not local, but that's the number I have had for the last 4 years and because I moved suddenly, the only number most of my friends have for me.

My work cell is Verizon and I just changed my personal cell from Verizon to Cingular. When one phone does not have a signal, the other one usually does, which is handy. My work has a policy that none of their technology can be used for personal use, but they have no complaints if I pay for it!

 

[craigatkinson]

Landlines are becoming increasingly outdated and outmoded. I haven't had a landline in five years. When I cancelled my landline they did everything in their power to try to stop me. They had all sorts of reasons why I shouldn't cancel. I wasn't convinced then and I'm still not.

 

[Deefuzz]

My cell phone is my only phone...Been that way for about 3 years now.

I don't even remember where my old land line phone is anymore.

 

[XNine]

A cell phone has been my only phone line for 4 years now. I have Tmobile, who doesn't cripple a whole lot of features, but for some reason they like to send people shoddy phones. I had my Motorola V600 replaced as it kept giving me a white screen, kept dropping calls, and the signal was bad. The replacement they sent me was bad. So I bought a V360. Great phone, but the internal antenna went kaput in just three months. I just moved and it was getting NO reception in most places. So they sent me a new one (I got it yesterday) and it's working fine now.