MSE Poll: When did you last make a call on your home landline?

badmemory

I too always use my landline when I am at home, which is mostly at present.  I find the mobile signal dreadful.  I have over the at least 20 years of having a mobile & trying several providers found that none are any good.  So I only have mobile PAYG & only use it when away from home.  I very rarely have spam calls on my landline but since I had to give my car insurance company my mobile number I have kept on getting dodgy calls, never had them before.

dizzyblonde82

I haven't used my landline in over 6 months - phone stopped working and never got round to buying a new one.

graham128

The cheapest mobile contract comes with ample call time minutes - from an economic standpoint it is cheaper to call on the mobile than it is to pick up the landline handset. Sadly, mobile reception at home is a bit patchy, and to make a decent call it means going up to the bedroom and standing at the window. I would love a cheap solution that picks up the mobile signal in the bedroom and relays it around the house.

money4nothing

Interesting and obviously relies on honesty of people submitting responses.

On the graphs, it's hard to compare because the scales are inconsistent; please make them the same for eveyr graph and it's much easier to spot differences! I love the colours.

badmemory

The best thing about mobile phones (apart from being able to ring the AA without getting out of the car) is that no-one knows where you actually are - as in not where you say you are.  Unless of course someone has sneaked the app onto your phone.  So how many of you said OMG & checked your phone?  Cheater's charter!

vacheron

I ditched my landline about 6 months ago when Virgin did a 200Mbps Broadband Only + 5gig SIM deal which was a quite competitive £23 per month (£32pm on a 12 month contract with £105 cashback) 

Up until then, broadband only deals were usually more expensve than broadband and landline deals combined. 
The only people it received calls from were cold callers, but my wife used to use it to make calls to relatives overseas cheaply, but now they all have smartphones and use whatsapp etc. for calling it was a no-brainer.
 
Unplugging and scrapping all the phones and charging bases etc. was a nice feeling!

jbrassy

I don't have a landline plugged in and don't see why it's necessary nowadays when almost all mobile contracts come with unlimited minutes and phone calls can be made over WhatsApp. Even my grandparents in their 80s use WhatsApp. I think the last time I plugged in the landline was to make an international free phone call to a 00800 number to talk to an airline in China over a year ago. Otherwise, they're a complete waste of time and money.  

anniecave

Zanderman said:

Looking at the results for the older generation there are a lot of dodgy answers saying they've never used a landline to make calls! 
Mobiles only became popular in the 90s and weren't universally reliable for calls (poor signal etc) even then.  Landlines were king until then and for some time afterwards.
So anyone saying they've never used their landline to make calls is either fibbing bigtime or relatively young.  The poll results suggest older people are saying this as well as younger, so there are a lot of people fibbing bigtime.
Surely only people under 30 can honestly say they never used a landline to make calls.
Certainly anyone over 50 must have used a landline and probably had their own for many many years. 
The poll results are, on that question alone, clearly very flawed. 

I did wonder about that. But to be fair the survey asks about making a call on "your home landline".  Assuming I haven't always lived at the same residence, then I would assume I should answer as the "never" option if I hadn't ever used it at my current address. If the survey asked about calls on "a home landline" then that would be different.

Now at my current address I use the landline as my main method of making calls (mobile reception is rubbish, and I only have a pay as you go mobile anyway).  However I did live at a previous address for 5 years and never used a landline at all - I used a VOIP provider instead.  

badmemory

Just to make matters worse, I will never be able to have a smart phone because I cannot answer one.  My friend keeps asking me to pick up his phone for him,  I've tried lightly touching it, stroking it, stabbing it & any other version you can think of.  40 years ago I had a TV like that, the only way I could change channel was by jumping whilst doing it.  I am now too old to be a***** with that carp!  It was static electricity back then so I assume it is now too.

CRISPIANNE3

We have the landline but never gets used. We are with Virgin Media and was cheaper to have their broadband with the land line.