I’ve got a cell phone, and a landline that is mostly used for my dial-up Internet. I also give my landline number to people that I don’t really want calling me up on my cell, so they get the voicemail and leave me a message.
Cell phone only. After selling the house, I just never bothered to start the land line up again. Haven’t really missed it.
What is this “land line” of which you speak?
IOW, I finally joined the ranks of 1990s era SoCal and finally got my own cell this summer. I spend about 14-16 hours a day at school, which is 90 miles away from home. My husband spends about half the time away from home the same distance from home, although across town (I’m in West LA, he’s Downtown). Internet is wireless broadband. A land line is useless to me now.
That said, I’m not a huge conversationalist. Mostly I use to it chat with my husband through the day, make appointments, deal with urgent issues, etc.
I have both but I wish I just had my cell phone. If it weren’t for the cable company requiring that we have long distance through their landline service in order to have cable modem I wouldn’t have a landline at all.
I use my cell for almost all incoming/outgoing calls. We’re on one of the Cingular plans with rollover minutes, so calls are effectively “free” (meaning included in the base price). Our land-line long distance is very expensive, so we never use it for other than local calls.
I’d ditch the land line altogether, except that I run a business over the Internet, and the DSL providers out here are a LOT faster and more business-friendly than the Cable providers. We’re not big enough for a T1/T3 connection, so DSL it is – and that requires the land line.
I have a cell phone but don’t use it all that often. I’m of the opinion that everyone should have a land line with a wired phone, even if only for emergencies. If the power goes out in your area, cell towers may be offline as well, rendering your cell phone useless. Hardwired phones draw power from a separate grid though, and are usually not affected by blackouts.
Oh I am WAY ahead of you on that one. I was sure to hit that baby as soon as they made it available for mobile numbers.
Land line. Also Skype, but no cell phone.
Prior to last month, I had gone three years without a landline phone, just a cell. Then I started a new job. I work at home, and the new job required two landlines, so I had to get them. I’m not enjoying it much. Back when I had a landline before, I only got one or two telemarketing calls per week. So, I didn’t bother getting on the do not call list at first. After the first couple days of 3-5 calls per day, ON EACH PHONE, I got on the list, and it’s been much nicer ever since. Except for the collections calls for former owners of the two numbers, and the wrong numbers. Apparently Richard, Lisa, Tina, Ahmed, and Diane are all complete deadbeats who didn’t even bother informing their friends and family of their new numbers.
I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t want one. I groan every time I hear my house phone ring because I just don’t enjoy yakking on the telephone and having a cell phone would mean that I’d be constantly reachable whenever anyone felt like chatting. (Yeah, I’m antisocial.)
I work less than five hundred feet from where I live, so I don’t worry about getting standed somewhere. 99% of my commuting is within three miles. Whenever Hubby and I travel, we take his work-issued cell phone in case of emergency, but otherwise, there’d be no need for me to ever have one.
I have a prepaid cell phone, but it’s almost always turned off. I use it more often for just checking the time while on the road than calling anyone. I don’t have a landline either. I use VoIP. For $40 a month, I get a toll-free number with free long-distance to the United States and Canada and I don’t have to worry about going over any number of minutes. Granted I only talk on it an hour or two each week, but it’s nice knowing I can call all my friends without paying anything and they can call me without paying long distance. I never want to go back.