Will landline phones die out?

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Will the landline phone disappear? More people these days have a cell phone as their only phone. Even some commercial buildings have ditched their landlines in favor of wireless phones.

I sure hope not. Cellular phones will fry your brains.

Businesses are too dependent on landlines to get rid of them. I am surprised, however, that they are still used in homes. I suppose tube TV's and tube radios are also still in use in homes.

It comes free with the internet, that's the reason I have a landline. It's annoying too; while I always have my cellphone with me and I know for sure that callers want to communicate with me (unless wrong number), phone calls can be for any of the three of us in the apartment (and usually not me, because I never give my landline phone, and I haven't even memorized it. People only try when I don't answer my cellphone, and chances are I won't answer my landline either )

Oh god, I can be such an hermit sometimes

I don't think they will completely go away, not in my life time. At least they better not if they want me for a customer, mobile phones have a long way to go before I will be happy with the sound and overall commucation quality.

Some seniors like my grandparents have no desire to learn how to use cellphones. Also t can be hard to get any cell phone service in some areas like rural mountainous places.

Probably not until the cost of maintaining the infrastructure outweighs the money made off their existence. For as long as those wires are in the ground and in full working order there will be landline phone. Not to mention that the landline is still an essential service in terms of 000 and 911. And we still need landline to ring our Telco's when our mobile phone is cracking the poopoo.

It's the ONLY way to get internet here.

No, some people still like landline phones.

It should be known that it was only in the last few years that Western Union shut down their telegraph sending/receving operation, they were down to 500,000 telegraphs a year. Gives you an idea of how long old tech really can hang on for.

There is still a lot of places cells don't work still.

Not really. There will, probably for years to come, many developing nations where their people cannot afford mobile phones.

DSL uses those same lines & landline phone service is usualy included or a cheap addon with DSL service. Some have DSL service because they don't want or like the cable service or provider in their area,

At my house we have a land line and dsl.

Edit: We'll hate it if it ever dies out. Our land line is our primary phone. Our cell phones are mostly for emergencies or when we aren't home and cost 20 cents a minute to make calls. We keep them off when we are home.

Last edited by hanyo on 19 Oct 2013, 6:27 am, edited 1 time in total.

I can see that happening eventually, but not too soon. It's still more reliable. I have a landline number myself, but few people know it. I only use it to make calls to local and toll free numbers.

I haven't had a land line phone in 7 or 8 years now. We have a fax line, but it's the kind where you're not allowed to talk on it or you get a big surcharge from the phone company. You're allowed to use it for 9-1-1 calls free though, so I feel good about that.

Charles