Are landlines becoming extinct?
 

How much does a copper landline cost now? For south of 466A, Century Link is apparently turning their landline service over to ATT .

Is there anyone else who has switched to Comcast/Xfinity and kept their landline? Not the streaming type but the old fashioned ma bell kind invented in the 19th century.

What are you paying for it and from whom?

With fewer residential users and the same infrastructure, it seems the costs are just going to keep going higher.

Thanks for the feedback.

We have plug in wired land lines with Comcast $8.95/month unlimited calling and a bunch of features.

We have a landline now. When we move to The Villages we won't. Our landline here never rings unless it's a telemarketer.

Same here.

This is the major advantage of traditional phone service vs VOIP.
Accurate 911 service: Placing a 911 call from a landline is reliable and accurate. When the national emergency 911 system was established, landlines were the only phone option.

Plus I still get interruptions on my internet which would affect the phone service.

This if for my parents as I only have a cell phone.

and this

Emergency calls cannot be made from VoIP phones if there is no Internet connectivity for any reason whatsoever. Location, power and Internet connectivity are the three main reasons why VoIP providers are unable to guarantee emergency calling on their services.

On call so land line is required

I bought an Old School Phone Handset and hooked it up to my Cell Phone. That's as close to a house phone as we'll ever get.

There is a way to hook up your Cell Phone to a bunch of Wireless House Phones Via Bluetooth. It works. I did it for a friend who put the phones in a box in the middle of the '90s. He has a phone in every room of his house. I think he has 7 or 8 phones all off his Cell Line.

Been using only our cells for almost 10 years.

We have a landline through Spectrum along with internet and cable package. Just find it easier to talk on a regular phone than a cell phone. Personal preference. Spectrum also has nomorobo included so telemarketing calls are greatly reduced.

Haven't had a landline since 1999. We use Bluetooth connected phones so we can call or answer from any room.

Another major advantage of POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service, yes it's an actual term): when the electricity goes out, the phone still works, and you don't have to worry about your cell phone battery going dead (since, if there's no electricity, you aren't charging your cellphone either).

You don't have a car charger for your cell phone? Add that to your survival kit.. :icon_wink:

There are two types of "landlines". The old fashioned landline is an analog wire that comes into your house through a low voltage wire, not through a COAX cable. The "landline" service sold by Comcast and other cable companies is not that type of service. The Comcast service is a digital service that comes into your house through the Comcast COAX cable and connects to a modem. You can connect a regular analog phone wire from the modem to a phone jack in your house, which will power all of the phone jacks in your house. But, it is not a true analog landline. Comcast does not offer a landline service powered by the analog wires that come into your house. If you want a true old fashioned analog landline, you need to buy it from another phone service provider, not a cable company.

about $68 per month