I haven't used a landline telephone in several years. I mainly just use my cell phone. Anyone remeber the phones from back in the day that you have to turn the dial in order to make a call? I always loved those phones.
Since quality phone communication is paramount in my business, I only use a corded landline phone for business calls. No cordless with battery issues or interference - no skype, magic jack or inferior VOIP service - no poor cell phone reception to worry about. My customers pay by-the-minute to talk with me, so they deserve the best phone service I can provide.
Who still uses a land line? People who value their PRIVACY. There is a HUGE media campaign to convince people that THE most private way to send a document (fax) today is "old fashioned" or "lame". They did the same thing with myspace, remember that? I read on cryptome dot org that the govt rarely spies on Myspace, because the data was more cumbersome to mine from. Gee, coincidence that all of a sudden myspace members were leaving in droves? Then, many websites all of a sudden made it so you could only comment if you had a Facebook account! I remember thinking something was up eons ago when websites became so bogged down with images and Java, that one had to do away with dial up to even view a page. For your information, dial up changes your IP address constantly, unlike high speed cable. Much harder to track a person using a dial up than with cable. The campaign to do away with "old fashioned" land line has dual benefit: cheaper for corporations to not keep up the hardware on copper wire, and easier to collect data on a person who doesn't use a FAX (again, most secure way to send documents perhaps except "snail mail" - another ugly term used to draw us away from using it) as opposed to iPhone or smart phone etc. The media blitz on ridiculing land line users was NO ACCIDENT. Question yourself every time the media comes out with some "new" way of doing things. What is their agenda? Who benefits? If you search on google, say, with the term "landline" you will find thousands upon thousands of articles all with some subtle agenda to get folks to believe that land lines are no good, and that the easiest and most fun way is this "new way". They also almost always accept comments, so users opinions can be added up to see which propaganda technique works best.