My family owns a cell phone, but I doubt I have made 5 calls on it in as many years. In fact, my wife got a new one a couple of months ago - I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it. I think I know the number…
The only time I have wanted a cell phone was on the maybe 5 times a year when my train home is delayed for some reason, just to tell her I’ll be late. But she know if I’m late it is because the train in delayed.
So yeah, we have a land line.
When I am called by folks on their cells, it is not at all uncommon to have a bad connection, or a dropped call - a couple of orders of magnitude more frequently than with landlines.
Barring the possibility of a family member having an emergency that the needed me to know about instantly (not sure exactly what that would be, but it hasn’t happened yet) I can think of no work or personal matter that couldn’t wait until I get to an answering machine.
No, I’m not a phone person. Basically prefer when it doesn’t ring. When it does, I exchange info and get off the line ASAP.
Cell phones, no landline. We’ve had cells for about ten years and also kept our landline (for TiVo, mostly) - then one day it dawned on us that the only calls our landline was getting were from telemarketers. People we liked had our cell numbers. So, goodbye landline!
I have a celphone, but there is absolutely no signal anywhere in my home, so it’s useless there. And compared with unlimited local & long distance calling from my home phone for a small flat fee, cel minutes are expensive.
The audio quality is poor and variable, often unintelligable; the echo, delay and lack of two-way simultaneous conversation so annoying that if someone calls me from their cel, I try to get them to use a landline instead.
Celphones are shitty comunication devices. The only use I have for them is when portability is the greatest factor.
Land line mostly for my dial up internet and no cell phone. I just don’t really talk to that many people. Anyone that knows me knows to email a request to call them.
I’ve thought about getting a cell for emergencies/car trouble and to have on kayak trips where it’s nice to be able to get hold of the people you’re meeting up with but it’s really to much trouble to get one.
It can’t go dead if you don’t keep it on. Why keep it on in the glove box? I’m not going to answer it while I’m driving, and only one person (my wife) knows the number.
When I say “Emergencies”, I mean if I have an emergency (accident, out of gas, flat tire, etc.). Since such things happen so infrequently (almost never), the power stays charged for a long time. Works just fine.
Cell phone, no land line. I never was using my land line, so I got rid of it. However, now I have a phone number with Skype, so I can accept landline calls on the computer. Unfortunately, my new really cool phone number is an area code away from a really popular tennis club, so I get at least 5 wrong numbers a day (no kidding) on this land line.
Most calls for my wife and I come in on our land line. Most that we make are the same way.
I have a cell, but it’s for my convenience–most of the time it is off, unless I’m making a call, or expecting one from my wife. Only three or four other people know my cell number, and they are aware that it is off most of the time, so they’re always prepared to leave me a message if they call me on my cell.
I have had a cell phone since I was 15. My parents bought it for me so that when I travelled they could get ahold of me (I often took weekend trips to snowboard in high school).
I still have a basic cell phone. I didn’t have a land-line when I first moved down here 2 and a half years ago, but I got one for about 6 months when I lived in a different apartment because I couldn’t get wireless internet there. I had to use dialup, but as soon as I moved, I got rid of the landline and kept my cell.
