Home phone worth keeping?

[llamatron]

is having a home phone really that expensive even if you never use it?

$20 - $30 a month probably.

Introduce yourself to your neighbours. This country would be a lot better off if people learnt that small skill again instead of hiding behind their 6ft fences in their McMansions.

I've tried, they don't speak English. Seriously.

[MV75]

What? You all only got like one house next door to you all? I know my whole street. Admittantly my whole street is only ~11 houses, but it's more than enough if I really needed to borrow a phone or something.

Plus we don't have any trouble either. I make sure of that.

[i_amtrunks]

I dont see the point in paying for something you dont use.

If you need to make calls to places that put you on hold (so banking, insurance etc) you can always use friends and family phones I suppose.

Then again the main reason why banks and other institutes have the practices of making you wait on hold for ages is to push you into using the internet to contact them instead!

[Saintly]

i can see where this discussion is going to head down before too long and let's stick to the subject

and no, I'm not a mod :P

[kup]

i can see where this discussion is going to head down before too long and let's stick to the subject

and no, I'm not a mod :P

Agreed although what I wrote is more of a general social issue when it comes to modern society some people could take it out of context so I am editing it out.

I guess that at the end it comes to this: How often do you use your land line and would a mobile phone be enough to replace it's use?

[roller]

now wait a minute

Forums are for discussion, and if the discussion was originally about phones, and then suddenly branched off into something else-so be it.

Ive been to Roman forums

[jaydisc]

I'm on Naked DSL and never looked back. I get free Australian landline calls from my phone plugged into the router (VoIP for idiots) and make all other calls via my mobile.

I also don't deal with Telstra.

Cheapest landline I've heard of is Telstra's Home Budget which was $18.50 per month and had expensive calls. So, if you did want a line just for emergencies or extremely limited use, pretty sure that's the cheapest.

[STL]

my phone plugged into the router (VoIP for idiots)

Thanks for keeping me in mind.

[jaydisc]

Thanks for keeping me in mind.

Actually, that reads wrong. I'm trying to say that I use VoIP, but just with a regular handset. My router does all the heavy lifting.

[Saintly]

Actually, that reads wrong. I'm trying to say that I use VoIP, but just with a regular handset. My router does all the heavy lifting.

You can't possibly use a PSTN (regular) handset for VOIP??