who owns a landline?

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I was reading that 13% of people use cash these days, and even fewer people own a landline phone. Apparently young folk make fun of landlines are say they are for old people.

Do you own a landline?
Does it have a cord attached to the wall, or is it cordless?
 
The Shooman said:
I was reading that 13% of people use cash these days, and even fewer people own a landline phone. Apparently young folk make fun of landlines are say they are for old people.

Do you own a landline?
Does it have a cord attached to the wall, or is it cordless?
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I do. It comes free with the wifi. It has a cord. I haven"t used it for years.

What I do miss are the old UK red phone boxes that used pennies and had a button A and B.
 
I don’t know anyone who still has a landline at home.

My office is a rarity to still have desk phones.
 
I own a landline, and with a cord attached. Sadly, landlines are magnets for African and Indian scammers with English sounding names and telemarketers. 95% of my landline calls are nuisances these days. One scammer has been calling me up most nights multiple times for months telling me my internet has been broken into and that everyone knows my details....I just say, well, at least l am famous mate.

And l pay cash for almost everything. If l buy shoos or a bespoke suit or a car i'll role up with a briefcase full of cash and pay that way. I am really old school like that. I know some blokes who still own bankbooks and go into the bank every time they want to make a transaction or withdraw money, and they are only in their 50's.
 
Sometimes when the scammers call me my eyes pop out like a bullfrogs and l do an uncontrolled crazy cackle like a guy who has a dozen bodies in his basement. I say "do you know who l am son? Do you know what i've done"? Then l burst out in the most crazy laugh they have ever heard.

You call up ole shooey and mess with him? Well, you are never going to forget the experience. I make Jim Carey look like an amateur.

My face when l talk to the scammers. Make my day. I've been waiting all night for you guys.
Crazy face3.webp
 
We have OOMA (VOIP) that we use as a landline. Originally we needed it for our community gate access. Now that moved to cellphone so there really is no reason to keep it.
 
I still have a landline - because when we shifted over to NBN a "landline' was included free. Its free to receive calls but would cost me an extortionate amount to call out. Its not strictly a land line as it still uses the broadband to receive. i.e. if the electricity goes off it doesn't work - the old TRUE landlines would still work in an outage.

It has an answering machine on it - turned off the ring so we don't know a call unless we see a blinking light. . The occasional person who has our landline number calls and leaves a message. and a few Luddites.

Its still the same number I had since 1976 when we moved in. So occasionally we get a message from a long lost acquaintance.

I also still have the same mobile number I first acquired in the 90s.

None of my offspring have ever had a landline.
 
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Oh Telstra has made all remaining public phone boxes free for calls to mobiles or fixed anywhere in Australia
 
fxh said:
Oh Telstra has made all remaining public phone boxes free for calls to mobiles or fixed anywhere in Australia
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And a lot of those public phones also do free public WiFi.
 
My aunt has one. My mother's mobile is on a pre-paid SIM so she has 100 or so minutes of voice. She asks my aunt to ring the contact centres and endure the hours long hold on her behalf.
 
It is like the landline package with cable t.v. Costs a lot, but they are old habits. I understand that there is all these packages like netflix that are much cheaper, but some of us never do those things because it is all new and scary.

I do cable t.v only for skynews, but it costs a lot, especially when skynews Australia now puts much of it's stuff on youtube.
 
I only own and use a landline. I suppose I should get a cell phone in case of an automotive breakdown. Otherwise, I see little use for one.
 
I have a land line as in it is part of my package. However, I don't physically own a landline, though I probably should.
 
Jan Libourel said:
I only own and use a landline. I suppose I should get a cell phone in case of an automotive breakdown. Otherwise, I see little use for one.
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How do you do online banking? Most of them ask to send you SMS with a secondary code + your standard password. Some will ring you and verbally tell you the code but with HSBC I need their app just to get a code.

Plus I'm sure your grandchildren would prefer send their photographs, happy faces, and notes by text or a messaging app.
 
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