Why would someone keep their land phone service if they have a smart phone?

Ronny Nowzari: I keep a 'measured rate' landline phone with no long distance carrier for about $8.00 a month.. It is good in case of a power failure, when even many cell sites will be down.. Good in an emergency, OR if you lose your cell, or your cell battery goes dead, and you have to make a call.. I'd keep it, but you can cut the cost..

Alexandria Popik: If everybody had my cell phone number, then they would call it and I would constantly have a phone glued to my ear. Instead, only my closest friends get the number and the telemarketers, bill collectors, and riff raff get to leave a message on my voice mail system and I call them when I want.My cell phone callers have more sense to not call me repeatedly if I don't answer, something that random callers can't seem to understand. The fax machine works better on the landline too....Show more

Malcom Bourek: Spam calls you get on both.i have one as well but feel 53 bucks a monthfor the amount of time used isn't! worth it.that said i would exthe land line.

Mauro Cowee: So why purchase a Vodafone telephone if there is not any sign the place you reside, it is not the networks fault you probably did not verify the insurance first. As for emergencies, your telephone will use any community obtainable while making a 999 call.

Lawanna Livsey: Because my land line phone is more reliable than any mobile phone and has better transmission quality. And since cell sites do not have backup power if and/or when we have a power failure it always works.

Darnell Cutliff: some people feel more comfortable keeping their land line phone service - it will continue to work in a power outage.. also some people prefer not to give out their cell phone number to everyone, having an alternate number to give to people will allow you to give them contact information while communicating with them on your time... some package deals such as cable company triple play deals, or phone service and D! SL are the same price bundled as individual services with out ! the phone service - virtually making the phone service free (i planned on canceling my cable company provided phone service when the promotional pricing was over, but instead they gave me the promotional price for an additional 2 years which was the same exact amount for all 3 services as it would have been for just 2 services at the non-promotional price) if you have an alarm system, satellite boxes that need to connect to a phone line, or any other devices that use your phone line to dial out then you may want to check with the provider of those services for alternative connections before canceling your land line service......Show more