No landline phone and financial institutions

flaneurs_lobster

A bigger issue is to make sure you have some sort of backup, it seems some people are totally reliant on their mobile for everything and their world falls apart if they lose it or it breaks!

You say "we", is it likely you would lose/break two mobile phones simultaneously?

As you say, alternative provision is a good idea, but maybe just another mobile with a PAYG service?

Can you access your Sipgate service without a mobile handset?

The_Groat_Counter

Regarding the OP's original point - in times past it certainly was stated that lenders and financial institutions liked people to be able to provide a landline number, as it was regarded as an indicator of a degree of stability - back then a residential landline number was (broadly speaking) tied to a property.

Of course in more recent years this has gradually been eroded with the ability to port that number to VoIP, and nowadays with the ubiquity of mobile phones and with old-school (PSTN) landlines dying a death the world has fundamentally changed.

I can't imagine any financial institution now places any weighting on landline numbers over and above mobile numbers any longer.

Albermarle

I nearly always put our 'landline' number on applications etc. as I do not like getting contacted/pestered when I am out and about. Had enough of that when working.

Also we get regular calls about a family member ( social services; care agency; daycare/respite care; etc ) which are all asked to at least try the landline first, rather than one of our mobiles, for the same reasons. i.e if possible do not want to be dealing with any issues whilst at the checkout at Tescos, or during some relaxing leisure activity.

booneruk

I've not had a landline connected for nearly 2 decades now. I'd have issues trusting the competance of any organisation insisting on a landline number for an application - and if I really wanted to go ahead I'd stick my mobile number in!

jimjames

Not had any issues. We nominally have a landline connected to the house but there is no phone attached to the socket so it's the same as not existing at all. Number has not been given out to any institutions for the last 10+ years and mobile is used for everything.

zagfles

You say "we", is it likely you would lose/break two mobile phones simultaneously?

We're not together 24/7. When my wife lost her phone and I was at work she needed to make/receive calls.

As you say, alternative provision is a good idea, but maybe just another mobile with a PAYG service?

They almost always have periodic top up/use requirements, you'd have to keep topping up/remembering to use a phone you hardly ever use. Plus nowhere near as flexible as VOIP, see below

Can you access your Sipgate service without a mobile handset?

You can access it from any device that can run a Softphone app, a PC, tablet, phone, etc, and you can install it on several devices at the same time and even use it on several devices at the same time. And you can get an adapter box which any landline phone can be plugged into. So when my wife lost her phone she could make/receive calls using her laptop or tablet.

Murmansk

Of course it's a self-selecting sample but the responses seem to confirm what I already thought which is that it's not a problem with financial organisations if you don't have a landline. I've had a landline number via Voipfone for ten years but only for the purposes of my business where I think people like to see a landline number relating to the area the business serves but even with that I suspect these days a mobile number would be just as acceptable.

dcs34

I have definitely used an organisation's own contact number as my "landline" number, if only to make the point that I considered it an unreasonable question, and wanted to be sure if they tried to ring it it wouldn't work and they'd have to use my mobile number instead.

I think it was to do with a form for a council IIRC.

UKX69

We cancelled our landline a few months ago and haven’t had any problems. Rarely used it to phone out but the scammers loved to ring in!

gt94sss2

I've used Sipgate for about 6 years since we stopped using our physical landline, you get a local geographic number but can use it anywhere there's internet (inc abroad). Costs hardly anything, just pay for calls which we rarely make, a tenner topup lasts us a few years, and you get stuff like voicemail emailed to you and missed call emails etc.

This is a legacy residential tariff and no longer available.

Sipgate have not offered it or other residential plans for several years - they now focus on services for businesses.