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Originally Posted by Matth
You get caller display included with any mobile network, maybe it's time for the landline to fade away unless you need it for ADSL, maybe the plain old telephone service has had it's day.
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Fixed line phone services are cheaper. The mobile companies have got a lot of people trapped in long term, expensive monthly contracts whose only benefit is effectively unlimited voice calls, so people use their mobiles because they have the minutes, so they might as well use them. After a while, they realise they only use a mobile, never use a landline, and conclude that the landline must therefore be obsolete. You have to hand it to the mobile networks, they have played a blinder.
Nevertheless, I receive a lot of calls from Joe Public on my landline at home, where we take bookings for our B&B, and the truth is, almost all the calls we get are from domestic, fixed-line telephones. There undoubtedly a lot of people who now only use a mobile for anything, but in my experience there are still a lot more people who prefer to use a fixed line when they are at home in the evening.