re: Who still has a house phone?

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My parents.

It even has a cord.

And my Mom buys a longer cord to she can walk around more while on the phone.

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My paw paw died a couple of years ago but he still had a rotary phone in like 2017. My dad still carries a flip phone.

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Well.. you going to keep us on the edge of our seats or what?

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I'll fill you in.

he is full of shite

Mobile phone service is sketchy at my house. I live about halfway between the 2 nearest towers and I’m surrounded by 80’ tall pine trees. The mobile RF spectrum has trouble penetrating pine needles. I tried for a while to go without a land line phone but had to go back to it for business purposes.

We have a house phone and a barn phone. It is a lot easier to call the barn and have someone answer.

Got one as part of my cable bundle years ago. It's nice because all the bullshite spam calls go to it instead of my cell phone

I kept one for a couple years too long because of storm disruptions to the cell network. The home phone network had its own low power capability that operated when power was out. But my home phone converted to VOIP with the installation of fiber. It became no more stable than general internet capability. So I cancelled it last year.

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I do... for emergencies. Number has never been given out or published.

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Same here. I have younger kids who are too young to have cell phones, but they know how to use the house phone in an emergency.

I do.

Mrs. Esquandolas has an office in the house and uses it frequently for conference calls.

She has AT&T cellular service and it totally drops out frequently depending on what room she walks through in the house—it’s a corporate account, so she can’t change it. Her company does pick up the expense of the land line, however it is a minimal expense—like $10 or so bundled into my Cox cable, internet, phone trio. I would still have it even if it were not expensed—as a back up.

FWIW, my mobile device, iPhone X, is with Verizon, and it has almost flawless coverage throughout the house.

I will use the land line when my dad (77) calls and needs some help with things on his iPhone...I use the speaker on the land line phone while I have my iPhone in hand walking him through the menus on his iPhone (and he is on a land line doing the same).

In fact, I used it yesterday when I misplaced my mobile phone, and after searching the house for 20 minutes, decided to use the land line to call it. Mrs. Esquandolas was not home, so I couldn’t use her phone to call mine. I called it, it rang, and I found it right away.

So, for me, just those things are worth the $10 per month.



And as a bonus....

My black lab has a thing for the ringer on the land line—she hates it. When it rings, she starts howling loudly for the entire duration of the ring. It’s a neat party trick—we call the land line and she howls on cue!