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Land Line.
Copper wire.
Can't get any "modern features" and don't want any ...............even if they were free.

Ditched my phone 3 years ago when the company stopped paying for it.

You can park your phone number for voice-mail only for a few bucks a month.
Get a voicemail greeting:

"Please listen carefully because our options have changed."
"Press 1 if you're calling about an extended warranty."
"Press 2 if it's something about my credit score."
"Press 3 if you're calling from Nigeria."
"Press 4 if this is some kind of Social Security scam."
"Press 5....

You can get the voicemail messages sent to email so you don't have to actually listen to all of them. Just see the ones that matter and then either read the voice recognition transcript or listen to the sound file.

You can make calls with an internet connection or wifi and a soft-phone. You can do that from a pc or a smartphone/tablet. I work for a Fortune 500 company and nobody uses a phone anymore. It all moved to Skype for Business many years ago, and then to Microsoft Teams a few years back. There's no more landlines, no desk phones, and while people have smartphones they don't use the phone part. It's stupid to pay for internet service and phone service when they're actually the same thing and you're just getting double-charged. Now obviously, most people still have the cellular service/mobile data. I personally do not for 3 years now.

It's the same here.

People who live in the heavily populated states east of the Mississippi or on the Left Coast might get by fine with cell phones, but out here there are more places they don't work than they do work.

Our knucklehead friends and family haven't figured out in the last 15 years that they need to call our land line. They get all bent when we don't answer messages or texts that don't show up on our cell phones until we get nearer big towns days or weeks later, and they can't get it through their thick skulls that texts don't work on our land line.

We still have one per wife's desire. She gets what she wants...

We still have friends and family asking us why we don't have farcebook because "it's so convenient to just post stuff for everyone".

Verizon wanted to double our landline. My wife told them we could just drop it and the rep couldn't have cared less. I think they want to do away with landlines as I'll bet the infrastructure will fail and it won't be worth it to keep repairing for the small number of people that don't want to give up a landline.

That's my understanding of why they (Frontier) won't provide us with one. A couple of neighbors around here still have them, we have a green box by the power pole that has their name on it and wires going to the telephone box near the electric meter, but I was told no service now.

It did appear they ran some new cable to an an area a mile or two from our place, but it's much better developed. We have all of about 8 houses on our 2+ miles of road.

Jim
For a long time, we had to have a landline to gave internet. Then we found out we could get “baked internet” - ‘net without phone service e that we never used except to ring the cell when misplaced. (grin)

Might be available for you.

No landline now as net comes in via FiWi now, and all else is cellular.

My wife and I have had cell phones for years. Finally got rid of the land line when I retired in July of 2019. Best thing we ever did and we're saving a few bucks. Absolutely no need for the land line as our ISP allows internet service without a land line.

There are not many people that I need to be in contact with, maybe one. My wife knows where to find me of the four places I will be, home, work, the indoor shooting range, and the outdoor shooting range, I'd rather spend the money I would waste on the mobile phone and the cost of being connected, on bullets. powder, a new firearm. Plus mobile phones are a royal pain in the ass. You have to make sure they are charged, you have to make sure you don't lose them, you may not have a signal, and the biggest problem is people will call me.

Kalispell MT Century Link We use the land line for internet service. Still have an answering machine but no phone connected to it. We have a phone that works if we need it, it just isn't connected. Only an occasional scam call gets recorded on the machine. Most calls are blank. Cable options are available but we don't use TV.
$38 per month for the land line and $39.43 for internet. Cell service has 2-3 bars most times.

I had one until a couple of years ago. Law required me to have one in my home office. I had gone to Majic Jack, way cheaper than the telephone company.

Some of our immediate neighbors. We just happen to live in a spot with weak cell phone reception! memtb

Imagine life with no phone at all.

We’ve come a long way from party lines, we still had those on the farm when I was a young teen 🤦🏼‍♂️

No landline it was trashed. Use Verizon phone service unlimited long distance 28.04 a month yeah you need to get on the no call list. To factor out the telemarketers.

I still have one, all in at ten bucks a month......

We still have a land line and it's the wife's only phone. She has never had a cell phone in her entire life and doesn't want one. I'm still using a flip phone from Tracfone that will be 7 years old this year. When that thing craps out I'll probably upgrade to one of those less expensive smart phones that Tracfone has available.

I don't have to imagine it, I've lived it and it was great! For several years we had no phone, no electricity, apart from what our generator produced. We put an answering machine on a phone at the nearby marina over the winter with a message saying I would check once a week which I usually did.
Right now, we still have the land line but it's not going to take too many more calls from Visa security to get me to cut it off. My wife has a cell phone but I hope to run the course without one. I have used a burner a couple of times and was convinced it wasn't for me. GD

Actually just used the land line.....use it for toll free numbers mainly

Cost...included with the fiber internet monthly...about $86/month average

They give you no discount to speak of if you drop the land line

Cell phones ? rip off......wife & I each have one...she uses her's more than I do