Do you have a landline phone?

[Beet]

I wonder what the breakdown is for this.

[Lief 🗽]

Not since 2008 when I went to college.

[Joe Republic]

I don't remember dates exactly, but I'm pretty sure I had one just within the last ten years, but it was sitting in a corner gathering dust for a couple years.  So I voted option 2.

[Eraserhead]

Nope, not for many years. Not sure exactly when we got rid of it though. It was probably around a decade ago.

[angus]

I voted for the second option.  The last time I remember having a landline phone was when we lived in Columbus, and we moved from there in the summer of 2007.

Actually, for the past six months I have had a landline, but not a landline phone.  The cable TV company had some sort of "triple play" option that made our TV and internet cheaper if we got a land line phone number.  I have never plugged into it.  In fact, I do not know whether we actually have a phone suitable of plugging into it, so I don't have a landline phone, and haven't for many years.  I do, however, have a landline phone number.  I'm not sure what the phone number is.  I wrote it down somewhere but I've long since lost it. 

[Mr. Smith]

When I'm living with my parents, yes.

Otherwise [such as college], no

Naturally I voted Yes.

[Middle-aged Europe]

A what?

[dead0man]

yes, for now.  We're planning on ditching cable after GoT/Silicon Valley is done and it will probably go with it.

[DemPGH]

0-2 years, just recently dropped it, actually. All that was coming in on it were junk calls; when I realized that, off it went. I'm actually not sure why anyone would have one who isn't running a business or something.

[Suburbia]

Yes. You have to. Keep the tradition alive.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Yes

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Are there posters here already who did not grow up with one in the home?

[Edu]

To have only a cell phone to use all the time in this country is still pretty expensive, so the majority of people (including me) still have landlines despite almost everyone having a cell.

[politicallefty]

Are there posters here already who did not grow up with one in the home?

I'm pretty sure virtually all of us did. I read the question as applying personally. I've never had a landline to my name, which is why I voted no.

[tik 🪀✨]

Yes, although we rarely use it. If we know we're going to be kept on hold for a long time we'll use it, but that's the only time we choose to. Oh, or if we are trying to find our mobiles

Once we get fibre it will get thrown away.

[angus]

Are there posters here already who did not grow up with one in the home?

probably.  My son did.  Well, we had one for the first two years of his life but he won't remember that.  It's funny to hear him refer to "those telephones that are big...you know...they have a curly cord from the part with buttons to the part that you hold...like the one you have in your office."  To people of his generation, that's something that only exists in offices.

[publicunofficial]

My family disconnected ours years ago. The only people who called it were telemarketers, pollsters, and Grandma.

[nclib]

I do. I find them convenient much of the time.

Surprised that half of us do.

[muon2]

I live 2 blocks from an AT&T central office that handles switching for my area. It is very hard to interrupt service from there to my house. Since the land line has its own power source on the line, I keep it and an old phone that directly plugs into the line. That gives me a virtually guaranteed communications line when power goes out, even if the cellular service goes out. I also still find that the land line gives more uniform signal quality, so for important conference calls, I prefer it. OTOH, I don't bother with a land line at my downstate apartment, I just have Comcast for internet and TV and a cell phone.

[tik 🪀✨]

My family disconnected ours years ago. The only people who called it were telemarketers, pollsters, and Grandma.

Grandma must have been a real hassle.

[Badger]

Not for several years (normal under 50)