Moved APRIL 2019, from The Villages to Lake Side Landing , next store, and Comcast cabel, Internet and old fashion land line phone service moved with us.

I have Comcast...triple play. I have a landline and I wouldn't give it up. it costs about $20/month with all 3 services

I understand that it should be about $10 per month with the triple play bundle. And, occasionally, they will offer a special where the triple play is less expensive than the double play, so they will actually pay you to take the phone service.

Regarding cellphone reliability inside your house, most (all) contemporary cellphones support Wi-Fi calling where your cellphone will essentially do a Voice-over-IP call via Wi-Fi through your router instead of using the cell towers. Our cell performance inside our house is solid.

No. Love mine. Hate talking on a cell

Does anyone know if the new homes being built being provided with analog copper landlines? Or are they VOIP?

New houses are all VOIP. I have my cable modem on a UPS so the internet and phone still worked during a local blackout. Laptops with a battery worked for several hours and internet up for several hours until all the batteries died. have two UPS boxes, and one was used for powering phones when their batteries ran low as well.

You might want to think about a UPS for the cable model and the VOIP phone just in case.

sportsguy

They are, not becoming. Cell for everything. Phone co thinks differantly

Another downside to "not" having landline: Many people in the Villages don't have unlimited text and voice. Instead, they have older services provided by companies such as TracPhone, and others. That means they pay for a certain number of minutes per month. After that, the service shuts off and their phone won't work for anything but dialing 911.

If you are in a situation like I'm in right this minute, your monthly minutes would've expired by now. I'm on hold with the home warranty company. I've been on hold for almost an hour, mostly just to see how long it takes for someone to answer. It's my second time trying to get someone to answer.

I'm guessing they won't cover my AC replacement anyway. Thankfully I have unlimited talk and text. But not having unlimited talk and text is actually a thing for many Villagers.

Thanks for this thread
 

When we move down in 2022, we plan to have an analog landline for the emergency reasons mentioned.

I asked our daughter if she thought land lines were going extinct. She wanted to know what a landline is?

If you have a cell they are obsolete