I moved from intown to a secluded country home in 2010. I did not turn on home phone service. Being a stubborn but i refused to turn on the home phone.. Cell service is very hit or miss at my place (depending on weather). I missed many, many calls straight to voicemail and often the voicemail through verizon wouldnt notify me untill days later.. I missed overtime calls from work several time's (and thats dang good money) Ive stood in the yard in rainstorms just to keep signal durring important calls.. I was the poster boy for stubborn cell phone users that truly needed a dedicated land line phone service. After two years i bit the bullet and went out and bought new home phones and got service started.. Its about $37.00 a month and i love not dropping calls, missing calls, going outside to keep signal, standing or walking all over my yard yelling into the cell "can you hear me now".. Frankly i was foolish.. i shoulda saved myself the headaches of not having a dedicated landline..
now if signal is not a problem.. consider this:
loosing your phone (cell)
misplacing charger, battery dying, ect
even with great signal (dropped calls)
and yes 911 service...
most modern cells are smart.. and ive a couple of realy "buggy" smartphones.. my new nexus is awesome.. and with the cool new icons ive still not mastered this device.. I dialed a cousin on accident and it took me 3 minutes to get back to the screen where i could hang up the call.. i was ready to throw the thing..
Just food for thought.
now if signal is not a problem.. consider this:
loosing your phone (cell)
misplacing charger, battery dying, ect
even with great signal (dropped calls)
and yes 911 service...
most modern cells are smart.. and ive a couple of realy "buggy" smartphones.. my new nexus is awesome.. and with the cool new icons ive still not mastered this device.. I dialed a cousin on accident and it took me 3 minutes to get back to the screen where i could hang up the call.. i was ready to throw the thing..
Just food for thought.