3 Reasons Why your Home Still Needs a Landline Phone

In a society dominated by mobile and smartphones, it can be tempting to think that you no longer need a landline phone in your home. However, landline phones have come far since the first telephone was invented back in the late 1800s. Not everyone understands why, in the digital age, a landline phone is still an important piece of technology to keep in your home. So, let’s discover, 3 reasons why a landline phone is still a household essential.

Superior Sound Quality

Do you spend a significant amount of time using a telephone? Perhaps you work from home or enjoy catching up with friends and relatives. If so, you need to be able to enjoy your conversations without being hampered by poor sound. Whereas mobile phones wirelessly transmit signals, a landline home phone has a connection that taps directly into the phone network. This dramatically reduces the distance your signal has to travel, leading to a better reception and less static.

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Wireless signals can have a hard time travelling long distances or pushing through metal and concrete in your own home, or from where your recipient is calling from, so a landline phone can experience fewer levels of interruption. A better voice quality when compared to mobile phones is also useful if you suffer from hearing loss, live in a noisy area, or simply spend large amounts of time talking on the phone, perhaps in a home office for example. 

Potential Savings on Other Services

Using a single landline telephone service, is often more affordable than maintaining multiple mobile phone contracts. This is sometimes even the case when compared to family mobile plans. Additionally, owning a home phone line can decrease your home security bills by making it easier to install and monitor security systems. 

Packages and bundles on TV and internet can also be combined with a landline service from most providers, allowing you to save money. In general, it is more cost effective for one company to provide your home with multiple services to one address, so these savings can be passed on to you as the customer. Discounts for television and internet services can often reduce your phone service bill by a large amount, so not having a landline phone service with the same provider as these resources can end up costing you more money in the long run.

Access to Emergency Services

No one likes to think too much about being involved in an accident or needing to contact the emergency services, however, in the event of an emergency, a landline phone provides you with the peace of mind that if you were to call 911, an operator could quickly track your call. Mobile devices are not always as easy to trace. Multi-storey buildings can pose challenges to emergency responders as calls from mobiles can usually only be tracked to the nearest cell site.

Landline phones should also work during a power outage. This can prove to be useful if you live in an area prone to extreme or inclement weather conditions such as storms or hurricanes. Above all, home phones are connected to your address including a specific house or apartment name or number, ensuring 911 operators know precisely where to send help, even if for instance, you were unable to speak.

In order to truly get the most out of your landline phone, it is vital that you do some research to find a package that suits the needs of your household. Landline phones have developed to embrace technological advancements in recent years, and as such are still an incredibly useful piece of technology to own.

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