After years of paying for a service I barely used, I have disconnected my landline today and the ~$40-$50 per month charge that goes with it.
now, Cellphone, all the time.
My cellphone reception is not bad at home, but certainly not as good as a land-line. Most of the people i talk to on landlines know my cell phone number, but that will come soon enough I guess. I have emailed everybody on my contact list with my new number.
I am SO interested in the responses to this thread as I am poised to do the exact same thing. The only calls that I get on the land line anymore are telemarketers but I am afraid to cut that wire and rely solely on the cellular. But, a $1200.00 per year savings for something that I really don’t use is increasingly attractive. Plus, we live in a rural area and you can hardly hear through all of the static on the danged thing. Hope there are lots of replies to convince those of us who are thinking of going in that direction!
Eh, I’ve never had a landline in my adult life.
I only once regretted not having a corded phone, that was during a blizzard when the power went out for about 14-15 hours and my cell phone battery ran down.
I just did this in conjunction with a move. As long as you’re in cellular territory, it’s great. Really, by the end, the only reason I was keeping up the landline in my old apartment was so that it would receive intercom calls when someone wanted in. And the cellphone reception in the apartment was lousy. (Ironically, three months before the move, they put in a cell site up the road and reception in the apartment became excellent…)
Just don’t lose your phone. 
I’ve had only a cellphone, no land-line, for the past four years. I’ve never had the slightest problem with it. The voice quality is sometimes a bit less than I’d get from a land-line, but not enough to offset the convenience that comes with a cellphone. The only reason I’d even consider getting a landline would be to support a fax machine, but I don’t send or receive enough faxes to justify the expense.
I think that it’s actually unusual for people under 30 to have landlines. I don’t believe that any of my friends use them, and my circle of friends ranges from unemployed couch-surfers to homeowners with six-figure incomes.
I haven’t had a land line in over a decade.
Think about how many land line calls you get that are either from the cell phone of someone you know or from a person you don’t want to talk to (telemarketers). Services that typically cost extra on land line phones like caller ID and long distance are free from most wireless service providers.
Nobody needs a land line anymore IMHO.
We still have a landline, 'cause we’re old and stuck in our ways. 
I’m convinced though that landlines will be a thing of the past in the not-too-distant future. All the teenyboppers moving away from home with a cell phone will never fork over extra money for a redundant service.
I haven’t had any problems. I’ve since moved all over the country with my original cell number and area code. I can change it, but I’m not inclined to at all. It’s kind of funny to give some local my number though - or the pizza delivery guy. I think people having out of state area codes is going to become more common. I’m on Verizon, so most of the people calling me are calling me on a VZ cell anyhow (unlimited). I can’t remember the last time someone fretted over a “long distance” phone call.
I’ve never regretted getting rid of it. We both have our own phones, so people call the person they actually want to talk to. No telemarketers. No running for the phone (if you get in the habit of having it in your pocket). Free caller ID, if you have people in your phone book, so it’s easy to screen calls. Free voicemail.
I’m very interested too, because the only reason we keep a land line is to have a number to give to people we don’t want to give a number to. And the only people who ever call are telemarketers*, the car service department with their relentless surveys about our satisfaction with our recent oil change, and my mother-in-law. And she has our cell phone numbers, she just doesn’t want to hurt either one of our feelings by choosing one of us to call, thereby excluding the other.
So, people without landlines, what do you do when you have to give a number to someone, but you really don’t ever want that person to call you?
*By “telemarketers,” I mean charities, political calls, etc. We are on the Do Not Call list and it works pretty well, but if every call that had gone to our landline during the last election had come in on my cell phone, I would have beaten it to death with a lead pipe. Coming home at night and deleting sometimes 8-10 calls a day was aggravating enough without having to have my cell phone ringing that often.
DCnDC, if those people called my cell, wouldn’t some of them go into voice mail? And then I’d be having to check voice mail all the time to delete all those unwanted messages, and I have a limit on my voice mail every month before I have to pay!
We dumped our landline last year and haven’t missed it. The only calls we had received on the landline for year or so before that had been telemarketers. The only reason we had kept it so long was because it carried our DSL. Now, we use “naked DSL” from AT&T, which means that DSL is brought to our house on a phone line, but we don’t make or receive calls on that line.
Dumped the LL over 4 years ago and haven’t had ONE regret. No telemarketers, no more bill, no more “You need to come back to AT&T” BS. Best ‘easy’ savings ever.
later, Tom.
If I don’t want them to ever call me, I don’t give them my number. They can ask, but you don’t have to give it.
Just don’t give a number. Or make one up. Most people don’t even look at it if you just write 123-456-7890 or some other equally fictitious number. Give them your email address if they really need some way to contact you. Or you could get a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone for like 20 bucks and give out that number if you really think you need to.
As far as limited voice mail, can’t help you with that. My carrier only charges me for airtime when I call voicemail. And like I said, if you don’t give out your cell number to people you don’t want calling you on it, you don’t have to worry about it.
I haven’t had a landline telephone since I lived with my parents five years ago, and I haven’t really missed it. It seemed like an extra expense when my cell phone covers all of my needs. The cable company recently told me that I can lower my bill by $5 per month if I add a landline so that I’m getting the phone/cable/internet bundle, so we might be getting one anyway.
We gave up our landline about a year or so ago and I don’t miss it. I don’t miss clearing the voice mail of telemarketing calls, I don’t miss having to wait by the phone, and I don’t miss the $80 phone bill for these privileges. Besides, I can’t post to the SDMB from a landline. 
11 years since I’ve had a landline. Don’t miss it a bit.
We dropped our landline for a combination of our cell phones and Google Voice. I use the Voice account number as my “public” number that I give out to anyone I don’t want to have my cell number.
Three years without a landline, no prob. Something you might want to know: I don’t know how it is in other areas, but in mine you can still call 911 even if you’ve had your phone service disconnected. That could save your life some day.
I use my old land line number, which is disconnected.
You’d probably be okay giving those people your cell number. Just don’t answer when they call. It’s doubtful that they’d bother to leave a voice-mail. And if they do, just think of the money you’re saving as you check your messages.
We don’t miss the land line at all.