Why do people still have home phone numbers?

What's the point... Does anyone even use them anymore?Why do people still have home phone numbers?
Of course they do.....here are the reasons why:





More reliable 911 service. Currently, 911 operators have to call the phone company to find out who owns the cell phone and get the address. This decreases your response time for 911 calls.


You may think, ';Well, I'll just tell them where I live';, but what if you couldn't? Also, if you have small children, and they need to call 911, can they give the info the 911 people need? Your land line is in then 911 system and even if you call 911 and promptly hang up, they respond, because they have all the info they need.





You can't have a reliable burglar alarm system without a land line. You can have sirens, but there's no way for your alarm system to call the police or fire department.





You can't have DSL service without a land line. Have cable Internet? If you lose power, you lose your cable and your Internet and your cable phone service.





During a power outage, you don't lose your land line. You don't lose your cell phone, either, but what if the power outage lasts awhile? Cell towers will only run on a battery backup for so long, then they also die. What if your phone is on a low battery? Plug into your car charger? What good is that? Is your car in your living room?





What if you misplace your cell phone? Can you find it if someone calls? What if the battery dies? With a land line, there's always another phone or another jack. What if you accidentally leave your phone somewhere?





You can't screen your calls on a cell phone. You can see the number of the inbound caller, but you can't listen to the message as it's being left like you can on a good old traditional answering machine, and pick it up if it's important. Don't think this is an issue? What if your husband, wife, child broke down on the side of the road and used someone's cell phone to call you for help, or even walked to a payphone to call? On a pay phone, you can't even RETURN the call.





If you make international long distance calls, you might be in for some seriously outrageous charges. You have to jump through hoops for a reasonable LD cell phone provider for international, in many cases.





What if your phone breaks or malfunctions and you have a 'contract' with your cell phone company and they don't see eye to eye with you? You have to buy a new phone. If a land line phone breaks, you have to buy a new one, too, but they're everywhere, cheap, and you usually have more than one of them anyway.





Minor hassles for everyday things, like ordering a pizza, for example. Some delivery places will still not accept a cell phone as verification. Also, just opening a checking account or other accounts that are common and you tend to take for granted. Applying for a loan, trying to buy a car, etc. Your cell phone can't be verified as quickly as your land line and you have to fax your bill to them to prove who you are and where you are.





Your cellular network doesn't have nearly as many trunks available as your home phone. If something 'big' happens and you try to make a call, you'll likely not be able to connect with your cell. You'll encounter circuits busy conditions with your land line, as well, but not nearly as often as on a cell.





Transmission issues. Cell phones break up. Landlines don't.Why do people still have home phone numbers?
truthfully it makes people feel secure, some people think that they can not have internet but there is cable broadband, and its faster. there is also e911 now for cell phones, Land lines are actually slowly going away belive it or not. a study on the sprint web site shows a huge decline in landline phones, due to the economy when people have to choose between home phones and cell phones, cell phones win 2-1, 12000 phone techs are about to be laid off from att
Robust/reliable, cheaper than mobiles to use, installed anyway, provides broadband on same line.
I certainly cut down on my cell phone minutes during prime time by using a home phone.
course they do but i really don't know why ??????