Just found this article on CBS News.
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I still have a land line for both phone calls and my internet service (not AT&T). The only other internet provider in town is the local cable company and I avoid giving them any money I don't have to. Not real pleased with the phone company either but they are the lesser of two evils, in my opinion.

Tom

Landline for housephone, cable for internet and tv.....two seperate companies.

Landline for phone and internet. Cable for TV only. Also two separate companies.

The cable company offers internet and phone services too. I don't like them and use free TV only. They changed the owner about 10 years ago. The first action was to reduce the technical staff by 50%. The service is still not at the old level but advertising and marketing is way up.

Where I live cable is not an available option - so "Yes", I have landline for phone, internet, and TV. My wife and I both have non-smart walk-about phones for emergency use only - normally turned firmly "OFF"!

I have a landline only because it gives us a discount on the cable package.
Never used it in 2 years.

I live "out" in the country and power outages are common. Cell phones don't work when there is no power going to the tower so a landline is a must. However I also have a non-smart cell phone that I use for long distance because it's cheaper. The landline doesn't provide DSL and cable will never be available this far out so I use a mobile hotspot for my internet. Of course when the cell tower is down.................

My wife and I still have the landline in case of blackouts or if the robots take over the world. During Sandy, we had landline service at home, but limited cell phone service. At work, we had no landline service, but I had a strong cellular connection because there was a Verizon building with a backup generator and cell antennas.

Yes, and we have no intentions of getting rid of it. And yes, we also have a cell phone, kinda a smart one, but we got it for emergencies and it was nice to have communications when we were moving and had not landline for a while. I also find that it's handy to have since so many others have one, sometimes it's a requirement. Several times now, we've been at a store or restaurant and they've asked for our cell # so they could text us when our merchandise was ready for pickup or to tell us our table was ready.... Even one of our doctors will text us rather than call out our name in the waiting room... Can't get away from technical progress, but we can still stick with the old landline in defiance...

Landline at home. Bought an old style phone that works off the current in the phone line in case of power outages.
Also cell phone for travelling (even local) but that's my wife's.
Cable TV and computer are the other company.

There's a sattelite dish on the roof. Can anyone use it? Bring your own ladder.

It's funny. When I was out shopping with my wife, I went to change our daughter's diaper. When I was finished, I only had to call my wife on the cell to find out where she was. It's a technology that you don't realize you need until you use it. I guess that I just described the marketing industry.

Internet only through cable provider; cell phones only for wife and myself, on different carriers.

Are your "land lines" really copper wires that supply power to operate an old fashioned phone?
My "land line" is a fiber that ends 100 meters/yards from my house in a box at the street. Only that very last part is still copper wire but it supplies VDSL 100Mbit data only. Telefon is just on of many data packets delivered. I need to have a router with a power cord to use it. I need to use the cell phone in case of power outage "if" the local cell phone station is still powered.

faraway Wrote:Are your "land lines" really copper wires that supply power to operate an old fashioned phone?
My "land line" is a fiber that ends 100 meters/yards from my house in a box at the street. Only that very last part is still copper wire but it supplies VDSL 100Mbit data only. Telefon is just on of many data packets delivered. I need to have a router with a power cord to use it. I need to use the cell phone in case of power outage "if" the local cell phone station is still powered.

Our landline is indeed copper, but it's shared with our Internet connection (DSL). I'm not sure just how far the copper goes or what form the signal takes after it leaves here, but when we moved a week ago, we had an Internet connection, but no phone so somewhere, the signals get split.

I carry the cell phone all day, but I have to check it occasionally only to find that my settings have changed. Sometimes it goes to the "silent mode", sometime the volume goes to zero, other times I find that I've dialed some random number.

I too have the old fashioned (yet highly reliable) copper wire for phone and DSL. I do have cordless phones but I still have a hard wired phone for when (not if) the power goes out. I have cable for TV. I have a flip phone but if you call it you will probably be calling my kitchen table or the coffee table. Only carry the cell phone when I'm traveling.

Tom

Do your tables have their own phones? Are they part of the family plan?