Do you use a cell phone for your primary line ?

[leeland]

Our plan has expired and we are looking at getting a cell plan that gives us both a phone and around 100 to 1500 minutes for about the same price we were paying right now...(70$)...


Does anyone else have just a cell as there primary line ? If so what company do you go through... Any disadvantages ? Right now we have U.S. Cellular and I fvcking hate that company....bunch of asshats imho.

How does ATT/Cingular rate ? Are they worth looking into ?


Leeland

 

[Hankerton]

Yeah man, my cell phone is my primary. Why pay two phone bills, right? I pay about $70 a month w/ Cingular but I got a boat load of minutes. I figured I might as well, no overages, I get rollover, the whole nine yards.

Just make sure your phone is insured so if you lose/break it you're not paying a ton of money for replacements.

 

[CVSiN]

60 bucks a month T mobile.. unlimited nights and weekends and Unlimited Internet

 

[ironcrotch]

We dumped our landline 2 years ago, never been happier. Its kind of redundant to have a landline AND a wireless phone, especially since wireless gives you free ld anyway. :thumbsup:

 

[Mr. Lennon]

I try to stay away from the cell when I am at home. Those risks of cancer would deffinitely be there if you are using your cell 24/7.

 

[Heisenberg]

I haven't had a landline now for ~3 years.

 

[Rudee]

I would never give up my landline. I hate having long conversations on cellphones, I would also hate it if I had company come over and needed to use the landline and I didn't have one. Landlines rule!

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I haven't had a landline now for ~3 years.

What company do you all have and how many minutes do you have with your current plan...


IT seems that no mater how you do it up they always get you with little extra charges...

for instance...if we both wanted a talk share plan that we would share the minutes...the charge is like 12 to 16 dollars a month

 

[Mr N8]

No, but it will be within a year. Ironically, the only place I have mediocre reception with Verizon is in the majority of my house. They are supposed to be expanding some coverage in my area, so once that takes effect, we are dropping the land line.

 

[Vegito]

the only thing i hate is that pizza hut or dominos in my local area gives me a hard time that its not a land line.. im like i rent this place, i can't afford a phone and they wont deliver..

 

[jpsmoney]

I only have one friend who does this, and I would have to say please make sure that you have good reception at home with your cell phone. She has poor reception, and there is a lot of static, and we get disconnected once every 15 minutes. Sad to say, I really avoid talking to her, because it is so annoying, with the static and constant dropping of parts of sentences. Don't lose your friends for a $20/mo, unless you have good coverage!

 

[xSauronx]

we dumped the landline when we got cable internet last year, were using 2 cell phones anyway and had plenty of minutes we didnt use, and decided the land line was redundant; and useless.

Oh, and no telemarketers

 

[SuperTool]

[conan]In the year 2000...[/conan]
Welcome to 4 years ago. Enjoy your stay

 

[Christopher Walken]

My roommates and I make all of our outgoing calls on cellphones and incoming on the landline. We pay about 8 dollars a month for "lifeline" which is a bare necessity landline from verizon. You can only use it to call out in a 12 mile radius. It would be around 4 dollars a month if we didn't pay for call waiting. Landlines are definitely dying out.

 

[cloude27]

I have not had a land line for about 3 years now. I have verizon and i pay about 50 a month and have no problems what so ever!

 

[acemcmac]

no, but only because my landline and local service is an included utility

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
We dumped our landline 2 years ago, never been happier. Its kind of redundant to have a landline AND a wireless phone, especially since wireless gives you free ld anyway. :thumbsup:

I really want to dump my landline but the 2 things making me keep it:

1) emergencies (like 911 or the big blackout in NYC)... cell phones no workie then... landline kept us in communication

2) what do you tie your utilities into ? Cable company ? You give them all your cell# ? And also if a company needs to call you back... you have to give them your cell #... yikes.

#1 you can't really help, but how do you live with #2 ? Run across any problems like that ?

I pay $18/mo. for 0 calls on my landline... it's not outrageous so we've kept it so far...

 

[imported_waldo]

I only have a cell phone...Tmobile (cause you get the phones for free on amazon.com and great international roaming, I travel a lot). Pay in the end about $45 a month, with insurance on the phone, text messages, and email (I have a smartphone). I recommend it, but make sure you don't go over your minutes, or you will be hammered. Just a warning!! I have 600 minutes, and some months it is close, so take that into account.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

kind of, we have lingo, and use it when we're home some of the time.

 

[ravana]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I haven't had a landline now for ~3 years.

Coming up on the 21st of this month actually!

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: ravana

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I haven't had a landline now for ~3 years.

Coming up on the 21st of this month actually!

20th for me.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
We dumped our landline 2 years ago, never been happier. Its kind of redundant to have a landline AND a wireless phone, especially since wireless gives you free ld anyway. :thumbsup:

I really want to dump my landline but the 2 things making me keep it:

1) emergencies (like 911 or the big blackout in NYC)... cell phones no workie then... landline kept us in communication

2) what do you tie your utilities into ? Cable company ? You give them all your cell# ? And also if a company needs to call you back... you have to give them your cell #... yikes.

#1 you can't really help, but how do you live with #2 ? Run across any problems like that ?

I pay $18/mo. for 0 calls on my landline... it's not outrageous so we've kept it so far...

anybody on #2 ?

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
We dumped our landline 2 years ago, never been happier. Its kind of redundant to have a landline AND a wireless phone, especially since wireless gives you free ld anyway. :thumbsup:

I really want to dump my landline but the 2 things making me keep it:

1) emergencies (like 911 or the big blackout in NYC)... cell phones no workie then... landline kept us in communication

2) what do you tie your utilities into ? Cable company ? You give them all your cell# ? And also if a company needs to call you back... you have to give them your cell #... yikes.

#1 you can't really help, but how do you live with #2 ? Run across any problems like that ?

I pay $18/mo. for 0 calls on my landline... it's not outrageous so we've kept it so far...

anybody on #2 ?

I never had an issue giving out my number. It has been my primary for over 2 years now.

BTW, both of our cell phones worked during the blackout. This was in Michigan.

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
We dumped our landline 2 years ago, never been happier. Its kind of redundant to have a landline AND a wireless phone, especially since wireless gives you free ld anyway. :thumbsup:

I really want to dump my landline but the 2 things making me keep it:

1) emergencies (like 911 or the big blackout in NYC)... cell phones no workie then... landline kept us in communication

2) what do you tie your utilities into ? Cable company ? You give them all your cell# ? And also if a company needs to call you back... you have to give them your cell #... yikes.

#1 you can't really help, but how do you live with #2 ? Run across any problems like that ?

I pay $18/mo. for 0 calls on my landline... it's not outrageous so we've kept it so far...

Remember that virtually every single phone out there requires an AC adapter for use, so it there's a blackout a landline is useless as well.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Remember that virtually every single phone out there requires an AC adapter for use, so it there's a blackout a landline is useless as well.

That's why you have one phone that doesn't require AC. One of those basic under-$10 jobs, so if there's an extended power failure you can still use the phone.