Do you still have a landline (desk phone) at your houses or do you only use the mobile?

[pousinha]

Until my early adult age, a desk phone was very common in the European countries. In Latin America, it's still common even today (we can't have a domestic wifi without a desk phone because our national provider company won't install a fiber if we won't accept the desk phone). Desk phone is still necessary here to access free national calls to universities and offices. But I know people in European countries got rid of their landline because their mobile is enough and they can have a fiber without the obligation of a desk phone.They spare money, using only their mobile to make calls. Only the third aged not accustomed to technologies still maintain a desk phone at their homes.

 

[arunima25]

We do have a landline connection, but it's hardly used. Most of our work is done through the smartphones that we have. Our landline is for WiFi connection. It's also used as intercom in our apartment. Each apartment unit has access to it. So, it's convenient and free to talk to people staying in our apartment.

 

[SHAHID987]

This question I have seen in so many survey sites, I think because very few people are still using landline phones. We don't have it but my mother is still using it. One more thing as whether you use or not you have to pay line rent.

 

[pousinha]

Yes, the point is we must pay the line rent even during the months we don't use the desk phone. But in my country we cannot get rid of our landlines or we get obliged to also get rid of the wifi coming together with desk phones. I suppose if the landline weren't compulsory, we'd pay half of the rent amount.

 

[Knowledge Explorer]

No. Everyone in my community makes use of a mobile device. Landlines looks outdated here

 

[pinway]

We only have landline in our house before in the city. When we moved back to the province we only use our mobile phone. With the advent of mobile phones landlines are no longer that functional and the local telephone service here got bankrupt. The existing landlines here are mostly attached to the internet.

 

[pousinha]

Here the local telephone service, practically has the monopoly. The telephone company offers fiber together with the landline, so it's impossible to face bankruptcy. Mobile data here is so shamefully expensive at the point a lot of people can't rely only on a mobile.

 

[itsmejob]

I was only able to use the landline for 1 month. When I moved out from the apartment, the internet provider canceled my subscription. I am using my mobile for all the incoming and outgoing calls.

 

[Alberello75]

In our house, although we still pay for the WIFI subscription (Ultrafibra FTTH Vodafone) which also includes the landline phone, we don't even own this device anymore. We had four mobile phones, which now have three left because mine was seized by the police (you know the reason for this), but we have no discount as there is still no telephone provider that offers mondem WIFI o cable, without subscription to a landline number. We are the ones who decided to disconnect and discard our fixed appliance, as only scam advertising calls were arriving! Meanwhile now our relatives or friends only call with their cell phones and often using WhatsApp.​

 

[klassicdoll]

Yes, we still do, but we rarely use it.

 

[Fidelia]

The closest I have been to a desk phone all my life is seeing it in movies. I was not born to see a desk phone. People never really used it in my country even when it was in vogue at the time.

 

[pousinha]

I know my 80 years old uncle and aunt still use their dear old desk phone. When their mobiles fail, they still can keep in contact with my cousins calling by their landline.

 

[Kirubel]

In my home we only use mobile phone, but in my country the landline is common in office and organizations and shops , but it is not that common in household.

 

[pousinha]

In my country, it's still common in both private homes and companies (private or public: for ex., clinics and schools have a desk phone as patients and students have in their homes).

 

[eLdavis]

We had one before, but that was years back. At the moment we no longer have anyone in our homes. We only make use of our mobile phones.

 

[pousinha]

Maybe, a day we'll be able to get rid of the desk phone in my country, but I can't imagine when and I can't imagine if I'll still be alive to see such a change . My country is too old fashioned and stuck in the middle age...

 

[deucher]

We have one but it is no longer connected to the network because no one uses it