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[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

I can't say I've ever had a landline, they will drop away soon. I remember someone telling me they only had a mobile phone in about 2000 and it blew my mind.
(Bet they were unpopular as it was the days of calling mobile phones being expensive per minute)

Why will landlines drop away ? I have house phone with calls to uk phones including mobiles for reasonable extra charge by BT. Mobile is only used when really necessary.

[admin]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Why will landlines drop away ? I have house phone with calls to uk phones including mobiles for reasonable extra charge by BT. Mobile is only used when really necessary.

We rarely use the landline. My wife and I have unlimited free calls on our mobiles so use them for outgoing. I never give out the landline number when asked, always the mobile. My daughter doesn't even have a phone connected on her landline, it's purely for broadband.

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[Bibio]

its taken me a over a month to sort my lockup out but its finally taking shape. still loads i need to get rid of but i can now keep my bike in there.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Why will landlines drop away ? I have house phone with calls to uk phones including mobiles for reasonable extra charge by BT. Mobile is only used when really necessary.

Because everyone pays for at least one mobile phone per household, paying for a second device that is rarely used is a bit of a luxury - given the choice through necessity most would opt for the mobile over the landline. At the moment the cost of a home phone is quite cheap because you require copper line rental for broadband (the other necessity) which is still infrastructure operating in the way it evolved - phonelines came first so we run broadband over those. I'd guess at somepoint, to further internet connections at home we'll deliver lines in a way that don't natively support telephony (fibre?) and BT will think what's the point of still running analogue telephone infrastructure*.

*someone more clued up is going to tell me that's already happened and it's all voip at their central infrastructure and they 're-analogue' it back out to your rotary telephone

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by admin

We rarely use the landline. My wife and I have unlimited free calls on our mobiles so use them for outgoing. I never give out the landline number when asked, always the mobile. My daughter doesn't even have a phone connected on her landline, it's purely for broadband.

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Ah, but how much do you pay to get unlimited 'free' calls on your mobile ?!

[admin]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

I'd guess at somepoint, to further internet connections at home we'll deliver lines in a way that don't natively support telephony (fibre?) and BT will think what's the point of still running analogue telephone infrastructure*.

*someone more clued up is going to tell me that's already happened and it's all voip at their central infrastructure and they 're-analogue' it back out to your rotary telephone

I think it is happening. A friend of mine has been told by BT that his line is going digital. I can't recall all the details but basically it's making all his phones redundant although he can buy adapters if he wants to carry on using them. I'm guessing that his new line will only support VOIP via his (new) BB hub.

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[admin]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Ah, but how much do you pay to get unlimited 'free' calls on your mobile ?!

£7 a month for unlimited free calls and texts, 4Gb data. It's not a case of either having one technology or the other, we need both, a landline to get BB, and mobiles for the usual reasons. The day might come where I ditch the landline and rely purely on mobile as speeds get higher and more reliable.

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[maviczap]

My eldest got a 1st in History, lots of hard work at home during these COVID times

Plus I won £25 on the premium bonds the other day

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by maviczap

My eldest got a 1st in History, lots of hard work at home during these COVID times

Plus I won £25 on the premium bonds the other day

well done to your eldest

often thought about premium bonds. my granddad won a big amount in the 60's IIR. enough to buy a flat in the centre of Edinburgh and have it renovated (have a bathroom put in where there was none before).

enjoy your £25

[garynortheast]

Yay well done to your eldest Mav. £25 will buy a very nice bottle of wine with which to celebrate.