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| Thread ID: 147418 | 2018-12-11 04:05:00 | Should I ditch my landline phone? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1456404 | 2018-12-11 23:08:00 | I unplugged my old school ph , just to stop marketers ringing me. Its only $10 a month, thats only 2.5 coffees . My adsl/ph lines fault so often I keep the landline so I can easily check for noisey lines . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1456405 | 2018-12-11 23:53:00 | Up to you really. For us the parents kept it even thou they each have mobile phones. The 2Degree's 60min plan without data cos I can share my data with them (2Degree Postpaid). They have like 600 minutes and each month they get mins deleted lol. But for them .. they have people at a older age that use a landline to call so calling us the landline it is free (landline to landline) and convenient for them. It's also just $10 or 15 with 2Degrees a month. 2Degrees also provides a $5 discount for SuperGold cardholders. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1456406 | 2018-12-11 23:57:00 | I'd also like to remove the phone cable on the outside of my house as its a bit ugly. Is that allowed? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1456407 | 2018-12-11 23:58:00 | My landline had been out of action for a month or two. Spark can be hard to get hold of and much patients is needed waiting for your call to be answered. Their music is not to my taste. I eventually went on line went on line and booked a call for the next morning. It is easier to wait for them to call at a prearranged time. I now have my landline back in action. While the phone was out of action I did not miss the crank calls and I stayed within my 100 free minutes on my cell phone. People were still able to ring me with important calls or send me text messages. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1456408 | 2018-12-12 00:57:00 | Can't see the point of paying for what to me is an expensive plan just for the occasional usage as a telephone. www.skinny.co.nz $9 Month 100 minutes Unlimited txts or $16 Month 200 rollover minutes ... etc... Cheap plans abound, or 2 degrees if you have a Vodafone phone instead. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1456409 | 2018-12-12 06:58:00 | We are old. Have always had a landline and wifey can be on it for ever. We have cellphones but only use them in case of emergencies like in the car and generally away from home. Can't see the point of paying for what to me is an expensive plan just for the occasional usage as a telephone. I don't need a cell controlling me every minute of the day! A cellphone is only tying you down if you let it, mine is set to give me no notifications except calls or texts during work time, I don't do facebook so don't have t worry about that either. I basically use my cellphone more like the old dumb phones most of the time and therefore never spend more than $250 on one. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1456410 | 2018-12-12 22:22:00 | I just moved to Orcon (half price unlimited VDSL for six months) and the landline is $5 - same as it was with Slingshot. Not sure why people are paying 10? |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1456411 | 2018-12-14 04:39:00 | At least land lines never go flat. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1456412 | 2018-12-14 08:39:00 | At least land lines never go flat. And they still work if there is a power cut! But they don't work in your car, or in another town, or another country! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1456413 | 2018-12-14 17:52:00 | And they still work if there is a power cut! But they don't work in your car, or in another town, or another country! Of course they do. You just need a long cord! Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
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