Submitted by MitchTobol on

Home is where the landline is

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According to the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey, which has been tracking American telephone use since 2003, fewer than 30 percent of American adults lived in a home with a landline phone last year. Those who still have one may have set it up ages ago—more than half of Americans over the age of 65 rely on landlines, and fewer than 2 percent of Americans use them as their only telephone.

 

Do you have one? I still do. What's interesting is that it's a communication device for the whole house not the personal property of one person. However, 99% of all calls I receive on my landline are spams/scams. 

 

I thought about getting rid of it but I'm sticking with it. 

Comments

Fred Klein

I have 2 and one is from my boyhood home which no one calls, but I still keep it for the memories.
Shelley Simpson

I don't even have a jack to plug one into. I don't miss it - one less number to forget.
Robert Intelisano

Yes, I have a landline used for emergencies, when there are cell phone issues and for a fax#.
Rona Gura

We've gone back and forth with that. Interesting though, when I work from hoe during the week, the only calls I get on the landline are sales calls to sell our time share.
Kelly Welles

I discovered during the last four day east coast blackout around 2006 when cellphone towers were down like they were on 9/11, that our landline was the only way to reach my husband who was traveling in Canada. And if anyone is in need of 911, if you don't have a doorman, neighbor w/LL or a shortwave radio, you are out of of luck. It also comes in handy when I misplace my cell phone. Just sayin'.
Daniel Schwartz

Gave up our landline when we moved to Florida. I actually had one added to our Internet plan as it was only an extra $10 or so a month. But all we got were wrong numbers from whoever had the previous numbers and spam calls. Within three days, I had it removed form our package. Never looked back.
Norman Spizz

You need to keep it to call central stationif there is a fire or robbery.

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