I actually did want an answer.
I can't understand once you have got rid of a physical landlines only plus point, which is it actually comes down a landline and is more immune to things like powercuts etc and incorrporate it into your mobile, subject to all the things mobiles are subject to, why not just use your mobile?

Incoming landline directed calls. For me it boils down to that. I suspect so for lots of other folks too.

Outbound not so much as I have inclusive everything on all our mobile plans. So from a cost and convenience perspective I do just use the mobile.

It was different years ago and I’ve employed multiple strategies over the years, especially when outbound mobile telephony was more expensive etc.

The death of the “landline” both physically and in volume terms (usage) has been in terminal decline for the last two decades. So none of this is a surprise.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Incoming landline directed calls. For me it boils down to that. I suspect so for lots of other folks too.

I still don't understand, your incoming call using an app is going to your mobile and surely every incoming call to your mobile is directed at you.

A lot of people use the argument that some relative or other won't call a mobile so they keep the landline but if they didn't have a landline the relative would have no choice but to call the mobile.

Once the PSTN network is dismantled and probably long before ALL calls are going to be subject to the strengths and weaknesses of the internet regardless of how many virtual VOIP apps you try to comfort yourself with.

Edited by Nervous (Sun 12-Jan-25 10:02:14)

That’s precisely why I prefer having it all on my mobile. Business and personal landline numbers come into that one device (as well as my wife’s mobile for our home number). So let’s say relative from Australia is calling or my kids schools are calling the landline, then either one of us can pick the call up wherever we are. Don’t have to be at home, don’t have to be in the office. People can reach me (should I wish) wherever I’m carrying the handset. It’s just more flexibility for incoming landline calls.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

It could just be an error showing SoGEA 40/10

If your are really is a copper stop sell, and your property does have FTTP available to order, then you should not be able to order copper at all. (It is possible to raise exception orders but they are in very narrowly-defined circumstances)

Under the Openreach 'FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell Dilution Rules' if you have an active FTTC or SOGEA circuit you are permitted to migrate & change bandwith to SOGEA 40/10 only, even if FTTP is available to order.