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I only have a cell. The only people that I know that has a landline are my grandparents, and I have no clue what that number is. The only number that I know (besides mine) is my boyfriends and the only reason why I know that is because he drilled it into my head when I was pregnant. He so afraid that I go into labor while I was out and not have my phone on me that he would quiz me on his number.

no more home phone, but only got rid of it a few months ago….

I only have a landline because I needed the phone line to get internet. I did have my hamburger phone hooked up for about two weeks but never gave anyone the number, so only telemarketers called.
Also, the minimum plan of my landline meant that if i made a call, i would have to pay extra, whereas i have a cap on my mobile that i barely use as it is.
As soon as i get different internet setup I’m getting rid of the damn thing. No more money for you, Telstra!

We still have a landline but there are three reasons for that: 1. It’s a business line. 2. We can’t get naked ADSL where we are, so we need a landline for that. 3. I’m paranoid that we’ll lose power, run out of mobile battery and have to call an ambulance in an emergency and the only way to do that is via a landline. Yes, I know that #3 is terribly ridiculous.

I still remember my parents’ number, their shop number (though the shop is now closed) my husband’s parents’ number, my sister’s old landline (she’s moved and doesn’t have it now), my mobile and my husband’s mobile. Everything else is stored in my phone or in my gmail.

I have one of those VOIP things but it’s utterly useless. The only time it gets used is when I’m calling my mother or she calls me for the Sunday Two Hour Call, and generally she needs to buzz my mobile and say “I can’t get through on your phone”, which involves me then unplugging/replugging my internet connection. Which has lead to a lingering concern not unlike the one described below: that my mobile will be out of batteries and I won’t be able to use my home phone in the event of an emergency.

My mum only got a mobile phone last year but I’ve never actually known her to leave the house with it.

I have a landline phone, because I find that the calls are cheaper from a landline during the day. I really only use it if I have to call a place where I am likely to be put on hold. I also have it because my Nana thinks that you can only call a mobile phone from another mobile phone, and so she will only call me on the landline.

I can’t get naked adsl in Tassie, so yeah, we have a landline. I use it more often than my mobile, because it’s cheaper and I rarely have credit on my mobile! I wouldn’t have a clue what my boyfriend’s number is, but I can remember my ex-boyfriend-from-6-years-ago’s number. Weird eh?

We have a landline and I can remember several landline and mobile phone numbers of friends and family by heart (I have a somewhat photographic memory). However, we only have a landline because the tv-internet-phone package worked out to be of better value than just the tv-internet one (higher download limits, more tv stations etc).

We have a landline but last weekend I went out with a girlfriend for lunch, who was visiting from overseas. Stupidly I was stressed out (vomiting child on motorway) and left my phone in the car when my husband dropped me off. So I was trying to meet up with someone I hadn’t seen for nearly 10 years, in a city she is not familiar with, and I couldn’t contact anyone, and my husband couldn’t reach me if our daughter was sick. Panic stations! I seriously felt out of contact with the world, and thought how embarrassing if I have to ask to use someone’s phone, yet I don’t know anyone’s phone number! A sign of the times, I even asked someone if their phone had email capability because I knew his email address not his phone number! It all worked out in the end but made me think how reliant I am on my cell phone.

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We use voip for our home phone, but I can’t remember the number so I never give it out to anybody. So no one really calls us, except my mum or grandma. Though it is good for making calls out, very cheap.

I have memorised my parents, home number, my best friend’s mum’s home number, and sometimes my mum’s work number and JA’s mum’s home number. Sometimes the numbers get muddled in my head though.

I haven’t had a land line for about 7 years… I hardly ever make phone calls. For me it’s Facebook, texting, email, then phone in that order. I know my bf’s cell phone number and my dad’s home number by heart but other than that I don’t even know my work number.

I have both, but not because of some strange need to use the landline phone – our cable TV and internet came cheaper with a phone deal. It’s proven useful, though, since calling my family back in Michigan is less expensive on the land line than on my cell phone.

In my last house, we had to get a landline because of our internet. I hadn’t had one for years and the only calls we got were from telemarketers so we stopped answering it.

My husband and I haven’t had a landline since we bought our house three years ago, which has worked out completely fine for us. The only annoying bit is when one of us misplaces our phone when home alone – you can’t use the landline to call it to help you find it! My husband still gives his parents’ landline number when a number is required (like on forms or something) but he doesn’t want the person to have his cell number.

My husband and I haven’t had a landline since we bought our house three years ago, which has worked out completely fine for us. The only annoying bit is when one of us misplaces our phone when home alone – you can’t use the landline to call it to help you find it! My husband still gives his parents’ landline number when a number is required (like on forms or something) but he doesn’t want the person to have his cell number.

I’m very odd, I have a mobile phone but only got one for the first time when my oldest started nursery, now three years ago, and still carry it only to be available for that. So it’s usually turned on only if the kids are at nursery, and I go out, and I actually remember to take it with me. And then if I forget to turn it off again. I frequently forget to charge it. My husband got a mobile for the first time about a year ago, as he wanted an iPhone for the Internet-everywhere aspect – if he could have had it without the actual phone part, he probably would have done so. We have a landline, I guess most of our phoning is via that, and email is about even with or higher than phoning on the communications scale. My mobile itself was actually once my Mum’s and is about eight years old, so people get v. excited when they see it (a real antique!), and it isn’t very user friendly! Then again, I’m commenting from my iPad, so im not exactly out of date either. Just, as I said at first, odd!

My boyfriend and I have a landline because we couldn’t get a plan for high-speed ADSL without one. The only people who call us on it are our parents, and I don’t think we’ve actually even bothered to give anyone else the number for the landline.

I have a ‘landline phone’, but use VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) through my modem and therefore, I don’t pay a monthly line rental. The cost of line rental used to make up about 75% of my old phone bill, which used to annoy me no end. I rarely use my prepaid mobile phone too, other than maybe for several texts per week. Most of my communication happens through email and Twitter.

the only reason I had a landline at my old place (the very outer suburbs of Sydney) was because there was no mobile reception. now I live in the ‘burbs and everything is through my mobile. I’m easily saving $15 a month, which is a huge bonus