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

Ditzy_Mitzy

I use mine all the time: better call quality, no worries about batteries and no nasty business with receivers getting hot - as mobiles are prone to doing.  I also find giving out landline numbers to be preferable as scammers seem less likely to ring them.  I get constant nuisance calls on my mobile telephone but almost none on the one in the house.

rockchick113

We still use ours, but recently just got my other half an up to date phone with free calls, so our landline is being used just for incoming calls. BUT, we had a power cut last week for over an hour, and the land line came to the rescue, having to ring around to find out why our power went off, my phone needed charging and our landline was the only working phone, as it does not uses electricity to work, it’s an old dial type, so I’m glad we still had it, 

Fingerbobs

I wonder how many people who put "I don't have a landline" actually do have one for Broadband, but just don't have any phones connected to it.

badmemory

I do always use my landline when I'm at home due to signal problems, but I also use it as an intercom with a unit in every room that has much use (except the bathroom!).  Saves me yelling upstairs & getting annoyed at the lack of response.

Bell98

I have to have a landline as reception is so bad - even on 5 different phones. We live in an area of "good" reception - it's not - tried numerous different providers they're all bad. Bad reception also makes 2nd level authentication a nightmare waiting for a login code to arrive. 

uptdale

I'm another with zero mobile signal at home.  The nearest place with a signal is 10 minutes drive away.  We have good broadband, but it's wireless relay, so cannot be provided by any landline provider - the broadband provided through the phone line is rubbish, almost unusable.  We could get a device to make mobile calls over the broadband, but that would leave us completely cut off if there was a power cut or the wireless relay went down, and so far we've not been prepared to take the risk.

So we need a landline provider without broadband, and very few providers now offer that, and our current provider, PO Homephone, have just increased their prices by 40%.  We are now looking at taking a landline/broadband package, and not using the broadband part, which looks like it could be cheaper than phone line only!

Robert4_2

Surprised that there was not a simple statement indicating the number of survey returns, and an additional graph showing the overall result.
I see numbers appear when you hover over a bar on the chart, so it seems there were around 17286 respondents.