Time To Get Rid of your Landline

Fork86

Again, it is a two sided story. Many people are constantly on the move, and when you have a reliable service and a tariff that offers you unlimited landline calls as well as hundreds of inclusive minutes, they are more practical and versatile than having just a landline (if I had to choose between one or the other, I would choose my mobile).

Plus, not everyone shouts into their mobiles

Forgot to add that many people can only be contacted on their mobiles, and the majority of my friends and family are on mobiles, so in some cases, it is more advantageous to own a mobile.

littleboo

Fork86 wrote: »

Your wife's organisation isn't the only number they will be calling, and as well as not being able to carry their landlines around with them, many people cannot afford to have both a mobile contract and landline

Thanks for pointing that out:rolleyes:

The point remains, I'm not going subsidise people who only have a mobile.

Fork86

That's entirely your choice. And I am sure people aren't going to fill BT's coffers just to make it cheaper for you... what a lovely world we live in ey?

littleboo

I'm not expecting them to take a landline to make it cheaper for me. The issue is that they dont acknowledge the fact that by only providing a mobile number they are expecting the other party to pick up the relatively high cost of returning that call, which had it been a geographic number would be at no charge. It's an attitiude problem, it's rude and it's presumptuous.

Fork86

As I said before, it does seem unfair. Though some people may just be oblivious to the costs on your end? Maybe you could leave an answerphone message asking people to phone during so and so time, when someone can answer the phone? The again, I don't know enough about your wife's organisation to make that suggestion.

MarkLS12

For a charity in this position they could send a text saying "we are available now if you would like to call us".