>> Potentially landline is completely surplus to requirements - only kept for broadband and emergency calls
>> as the price is not dissimilar to a high data allowance SIM and it provides
>> back-up.
Both my adult kids have a landline number but neither uses it or even has a suitable phone.
Said kids are now pretty much the only people, other than various species of timewasters/putative fraudsters, who call us on our landline. We only hang on to it because it's nothing extra, except the answering service, and very occasionally old friends call on it.
HAving had the same number since we moved here 33 years ago is probably a factor too.
When said kids were small we only had the landline and for a while after we got mobiles calls to them could be expensive. We made sure that as soon as they were able to understand the phone's purpose they could tell anyone what their parent's phone number was.
I can still remember several of significance from my childhood. Home was Horsforth 2429 and Granny Garforth 2424. Other Granny was in Dorset and pretty much until she came up to Leeds in 1971 had to be called via the operator.
When she first moved there the phone didn't even have a dial - either picking up the phone called the operator or you pressed a button.
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