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scarlett · Marc Jacobs

using cell phone only, cancelling land line?

luckylily · Gucci

We've been cell phone only for about 5 years. It works great for us.

Tashina · Kate Spade

my husband and i cancled our home phone after a bunch of crap with verizon. and now we just use our cell phones. it really hasn't been all that big a deal. we got new phones and a new plan when we did this so that we would have plenty of minutes. we have verizon cell phone service, which i love as apposed to their land line service which sucks. every one we know just about is verizon as well, so we got a plan with 700 anytime minutes to share and we are "in" and we never go over our minutes. we pay about $90 a month combined for both our plans and we save a lot on the phone bill every month since we don't get charged for long distance and all that crap. and i never miss phone calls or have to worry about my messages getting erased from the answering machine.

Kitty · Hermes

luckylily wrote:

We've been cell phone only for about 5 years. It works great for us.

Same here.

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

thanks, ladies, this is really helpful. i want to start saving up for a downpayment on a home and every little bit i can cut back on is good!

Kelly · Hermes

I think its perfect. I prefer having only a cell phone, and land line would only be redundant. The only thing is, if you like talking on the phone for a long time it could get expensive. Most of the people I talk to the most are all cingular customers, so I can yap away as long as I want. But my boyfriend doesn't have cingular so it cuts down on my minutes... if I want to talk to him for more than a minute I always have to wait patiently until my nighttime free minutes.

Still, I've only had a cell phone for a few years now and it's been great.

jettie · Kate Spade

I don't have a land line and I don't miss it. During the day, I will typically use my office phone so I don't use too many day time minutes that way. I always keep my minutes under those alloted to me.

Lilykind · Hermes

I never got a land phone when I moved to LA...I felt the expense was redundant. I have used my cell phone for 4 years and had no problems. I'm a Verizon customer and since my BF and family are also on Verizon I can keep in touch with them really easily.

It's so easy because I have one centralized point of contact and I can just check one set of voicemail as opposed to two. I also didn't have to buy a phone unit, which was really nice as well.

erin · Chanel

we needed a landline for dsl, but i cut it down to a basic line that is only $10 a month. (but i have to pay a dime every time i make a call on it, which is basically never)

FashionPrincess · Hermes

We got Vonage for our home phone cause I call family in Ohio and talk forever. We are pleased with it, but mainly use our cell phones.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

We cancelled our land line recently. All we got on it was telemarketers at least 5 times a day and we didn't even know the phone number anyways! Very nice not having to listen to it ring off the hook!

wicked · Coach

luckylily wrote:

We've been cell phone only for about 5 years. It works great for us.

Ditto

e_doli · Dooney & Bourke

when we bought our house 3 years ago we never installed a land line. i just changed our cell plan to make sure we had plenty of minutes.

the only issues that have come up so far are:

1. not being listed in directory assistance or the phone book -- my bf has side business and if past clients are trying to get in touch with him they have a hard time finding him (this is fine for us but something to think about ...)

2. can't have a fax machine

3. areas of the house where the service goes out -- some houses/buildings are weird and have areas where service drops

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

I haven't had a landline for 3-4 years now.....It was an added expense that I didn't need, especially when my cell phone had long distance, caller ID, call waiting, voicemail, etc.

I only slightly wish I had it now, but that's because I get crap reception on my cell in my apartment.

littlebean · Kate Spade

Cell phone only is great! If I find that I am running out of minutes at the end of the month, I just use Skype instead. In case you didn't already know, you can call US numbers for free from your computer using Skype and generally the sound quality is great -- sometimes even better than when I use my cell phone.

carmenb513 · Coach

FashionPrincess wrote:

We got Vonage for our home phone cause I call family in Ohio and talk forever. We are pleased with it, but mainly use our cell phones.

same here..........I would prolly go over my minutes w/o my landline. plus vonage is only $29.40 (that's w/ tax and everything).

But since I have this crack"burry" (blackberry)..................boy have I been addicted!

-- Edited by carmenb513 at 22:49, 2006-09-28

blink · Coach

Perhaps out of paranoia, I like the 911 capability that a land line has.

We frequently use our fax machine.

My home phone doesn't run out of batteries and the connection is always clearer than cellular, no delays in speech, no intermittant cut outs.

Most of all though, I can talk for hours to some people and I would hate to be spending my mobile phone minutes on that.

kenzie · Chanel

I haven't used a landline in about 4 years. When I lived with the ex, we had one, but he was the only one who used it. I'm in my own place now and I don't have a landline and I see absolutely no need for one.

smash · Dooney & Bourke

FashionPrincess wrote:

We got Vonage for our home phone cause I call family in Ohio and talk forever. We are pleased with it, but mainly use our cell phones.

ditto. we have vonage and like it a lot. i like that you can check your messages online. and i use that to make longer calls, like to my family.

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

lorelei wrote:

Perhaps out of paranoia, I like the 911 capability that a land line has.

This is the one thing that holds me back, actually. I live in NYC and remember on 9/11 that I was unable to use my cell phone that day; it was hard enough getting through on land lines as it was. Obviously that's an extremely unusual circumstance, but the memory of that has stuck with me. Also, I do have longer conversations with my family, but tend not to spend much time on the phone besides that.

What is Vonage? Is that a landline service or something I am just technologically in the dark about?