Phones Without Homes

My landline was $40. a month for just basic service. The cable landline is $25. and includes all the bells and whistles. I don't see the phone company lowering it's rates to attract more customers. For years they were arrogant and tresated their customers like trash. I hope they go under. I don't like having long conversations on my cell though, because it gets hot. I am hoping they will combine the 2 phones so that they use the same number and I can use the home unit when at home and the cell unit when away.

The loss of customers hasn't pushed the phone company into lowering it's prices. I was paying $40. a month for a basic phone. the cable based phone is only $25. a month and comes with all the bells and whistles. I hope my old phone company goes under. They deserve it for cheating us for all these years.

The real reason land lines are disappearing is because its stupid to pay $37 per month for basic land line service plus taxes, and then have to pay more (to a different company!) per minute every time you make a call unless its a "LOCAL" call or get a long distance package--when you can get a cell phone and for a flat $40 per month call anywhere in the US for as long as you want (as long as you follow the "minutes" rules. It the wired carriers want to stay in business they have to compete. If they would support photo/ texting/email enabled cordless phones plus high speed internet service and call anywhere, anytime service all for a flat rate of around $30 per month (cheaper than cell phones, since they ARE far less mobile), they'd probably still be growing.

I need a wireless phone to keep in touch, and to conduct what little business I still do, though I???m retired.
I don???t need a land line at over $40 a month, just to get telemarketers to hassle me, and Quest won???t even talk about a reduced rate for seniors or low usage.
Also, why would you want to deal with a company who only hires jerks or people who neither speak nor understand the language that we all use to communicate in this country.

Wow, specific situations in which something you agree with has been useful to someone

somewhere. Truth is cell phones are a technology that has been proven to cause brain cancer

and is still sold by the billions without proper wave protection, the whole basis of the

wireless communication is based off of idiotic policy designed to seperate idiots from their

money because they must talk all the time no matter what, and most definately is a waste of

resources for all the so called "green" politicals being that cell phones are replaced on a

flight of fancy every month or so with landfills being littered with them. You have idiots

trying to get you to destroy your old non japanised computer hardware because they consider

it a waste of space when there are multiple offenders of worse wastes every time the

hypocrits take a trashbag out to be thrown away and probably have 5-10 dead cell phones

lying around their homes constantly being bought and replaced due to the non regulated policies of company after company and the attitude they have worked so hard to instill in people...

Because of the monstrous taxes, fees, & excise taxes etc. I've decided to go with VOIP over my internet connection, and have moved my 25 year old land line phone number to a cell carrier in spite of not liking their multi-year contract bs.

"And if it comes down to one or the other, the mobile or the home-based land line, it's clear which is a necessity and which is an option. One lets you make telephone calls only from your house. The other lets you make telephone calls from anywhere, send e-mails, surf the Internet, play music, and take photographs."

This is really a misleading statement. For both wireless and land line, the services you have depend on the package you choose. Except for photographs, the land line can do everything that's named if you choose to have those services. Nothing is for free for either wireless or land lines. Normally, land lines are more secure and more reliable than wireless. Internet is also available at much greater speeds on a land line.

Just how exactly is someone supposed to use DSL internet if there is no copper pair running to their home? The landline won't be dead yet as long as DSL remains a viable internet option. On the flip side however I wouldn't mind seeing all the telephone poles come down. If we could only convince the electrical company then to bury their cables...

Land Lines carriers have been ripping us off for decades, I am glad that now a whole new generation is "taking them to the cleaners" sort of speak ....

Wife and i are in our fifties; just moved. For the first time we do not have a land line. Why? When figuring costs the land line was almost competitive until we added the incredible fees and taxes. So, we use voip and prepaid cellphones to save a lot of money every month!

I got rid of my landline in Mar 2007. The basic service fee (about $40) was just too much for the amount of time I actually used the phone and it did not even offer the benefit of dsl. The phone companies have put zero effort into landlines, the current lines have been paid for for decades. I like the convenience of the cell phone, but again, I think even the minimal plan I have is still too expensive.

Other reasons for the decline of the landline are the excessive fees and taxes piled on by Federal, State, and Local governments on top of bogus fees added by the carriers. A basic phone line has more than doubled in price in the past ten years due to added fees and taxes.

Truly RURAL America is where the land lines are being used! If I try to make a cell call from my home, the signal is weak and the call is inevitably dropped! We have NO choice. The lack of towers in Rural America is what keeps TracFone's in business! If you must have both, your cell is a cheap one...

The only comment I have is that the TRULY rural areas of the US have not caught up to the rest of the world. If I try to make a cell call from my home, there is weak signal and the call is inevitably dropped! That's where the land lines are now: in the rural areas with no towers! We have NO choice...

I am 26 and I use my landline phone every day. In fact, I use it more than I use my cell phone.

I am 26 and I use my landline phone every day. In fact, I use it more than I use my cell phone.

I would like to drop my land-line but can't as my husband has a hearing problem and I can't find a cell to help with that. I other good thing about dropping the line is that telemarketers don't call my cell.

Land Lines - having to go register at the Do Not Call Registry to cut down on the advertising phone calls and then being bombarded by Qwest advertisements to 'enhance' your service. Apparently they get to keep on calling since you do business with them. Total crap. I pay money so I can have my phone used by advertisers to harass and annoy me? Why would anyone want to keep that sort of thing around the house any longer?