I wanted to do this a while back, but I ordered a pizza from my cell phone once and they wanted a land line number. I couldn't believe they were able to indentify land lines from their phone system. Strange. Good point about the TiVo... I totally forgot about that. D'oh!

 

Wow, no land line = no pizza. Grim

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shank Flanker
[B]I wanted to do this a while back, but I ordered a pizza from my cell phone once and they wanted a land line number.

 

the only reason i still have the landline phone is that my apartment complex wants it for the gate access and i need it for DSL. if i switch to cable and move, i will get rid of my landline #

 

I still have a land line used by both the TiVo and (more importantly) the home security system. For folks with a home network and broadband internet access, you can free your TiVo from the phone line for just over $60 and a little handywork (http://www.9thtee.com/tivonet.htm).

 

Hello.......Ameri-crap, AT&T, TDS, BSC (oops, I mean SBC)..........can we get a package offering a land line and consolidated mobile service (same number, same bill, same minutes plans).......it doesn't take a genius to figure out that whoever came to market with this "product" offering, you'd have a hands down winner on your hands.

Maybe it'd take a mobile service like Cingular to jump into the LAN service industry to pre-package a product offering like this.

I know I'd be on it........think about it: One low monthly bill based on the minutes plan you choose; no local long distance and normal long distance charges as long as you don't use up your minutes; one phone number (don't believe what they tell you....it's possible); a LAN line in the house for DSL, Tivo, Satellite, Digital Cable, etc.; and additional "ammenities" like immediate switch-over of phones when you walk in and out of the house (ie. if you walk outside the perimeter of your house, the mobile phone is "activated", and when you walk into the house, the mobile is deavtivated, and the LAN phone is activated;

Everyone in the house can have their own personal phone number.....

 

One of my former employees tried to rent a car awhile back from Enterprise, and they wouldn't rent to him without a land-line number. Basically, they're trying to screen out someone that they can't track easily to a permanent address, and since apartment dwellers might not have a water bill or electric bill to verify a permanent address, the phone seems to be the knee-jerk method of verification. I've heard from others that most car rental companies do the same thing.

I think we're a few years away from the rest of the world catching up with our desire to "cut the cord."

Tim

 

Tim,

I actually just rented from Enterprise using my mobile number as my main number, and my daytime as my backup.

The first chance after the big move-in to my house that AT&T had to install my local and long distance digital phone line (aka co-axial phone line), was at the end of March. I, however, missed that date by not being home....hehehehe, and am seriously contemplating not connecting a line at all.

I've made-do since Feb 28th without a phone line, let's see how much longer my wife and I can do without.

Anyone wanna take bets? Ronica and I get back from our honeymoon on the 14th, so starting the 14th, let's see how long we can go without a phone line (btw, there is no broadband cable for internet in my area....only dial-up and dsl).....I'm in the IT industry, and have always either had some sort of high speed 'ON' connection without a dial-up. My parents house have a cable modem and a T1....they work for Lucent and always have....so I am weaned on some sort of high speed connection.

Any odd makers here, any wager takers?

 

Did Enterprise know it was a mobile number? Is the daytime number your residence? My guess is, if they knew it was a mobile, they'd want to have your home number as the backup. In my friend's case, they wouldn't accept his work number as a backup, and recognized the prefix as a Sprint #.

Then again, this was about 18 months ago, so Enterprise (and others) may have changed their policies since then.

For me, the positives about not having a landline would be the virtual elimination of all telemarketing calls. If we simply "changed" our home number to my wife's cell by telling our friends and family the new number, that would be the hardest part.

On the other hand, it's nice to have several extensions for the same number, and given my sons' abilities to keep track of the cordless handsets (thank you, whoever invented the Page/Beep feature)... we'd be buying new cell phones all the time.

I'm thinking cutting the cord may not be practical if there are kids in the house. (And no, I'm not giving my teenager a cell phone.)

Tim

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Palmateer
[B]Wow, no land line = no pizza.

 

Wow, looks like I'm not alone...!

I'm wondering how long it will continue to feel weird...I was dating a girl a while back and she had cut the cord and whenever we were at her house, it felt weird that she didn't have a land line.

And given that I don't have a need to Tivo and Amerihell provides me decent DSL service, I am thinking that I will really start to like cutting the cord. One less bill coming to the house every month too. For a while, I was wondering why I was paying when I was using my cell in the house anyway because I would always forward my land line there anyway! I couldn't justify the cost any longer...

I also lost my Nokia 8260 a while back and replaced it with a 3360...this phone is so much cooler. It has an IR port so I can zap contacts from my Palm right into the phone. No more entering phone numbers manually into the phone. Great option and that was what made me get that one instead of another 8260. Now if I can just have a reliable m505, that thing has been a nightmare!