No land line
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Topic: No land line
Posted By: caliandjack
Subject: No land line
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 12:59pm
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Vodafone are currently offering naked broadband for $65 a month.
We're currently paying $120 for broadband and our phone line. However we hardly ever use our home phone number, we both have cell phones we usually text or email our friends. The only people that ring our land line is our parents. Do we need a land line? Has anyone gone without one? How have you found it? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 1:20pm
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We were thinking about getting rid of ours.
DH has an iphone on plan & I have prepaid but don't use it much. We want to use skype so need a skype phone on the computer. I have 1 friend that rings that is not on computer or skype. I really don't use it much. We pay $150+ mth to telecom. DH rang from work before & I asked him why we decided not to get rid of the ph & he said we hadn't so we will chat about it later & I will post his views...he is a techo  
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 4:58pm
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The only disadvantage is in an emergency, if the cell phones are out then you cant call anyone. It would be okay if you had good neighbours tho. You can easily get freedom for $10 per month between your cellphone and a land line (telecom users), that would mean your parents could still call you as much as they wanted. ------------- 
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 6:53pm
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We have naked Broadband and LOVE it! So pleased we got rid of our land line. It was $30 a month that was a total waste of money. We only had it for the internet.
To keep in touch with family, we use Skype and for other calls I use my mobile, ring from work, or Skype cos thats cheap as chips too. I highly recommend it  ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: ButterflyMum
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 9:42pm
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we want o get rid of our's but we with telecom and as far as I know you have to have a landline with broadband plese correct me if I am wrong would love to get rid of ours and save money. -------------  
 
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 10:13pm
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When we move we will be going naked broadband.
I'm on contract and have DP as bestmate no one really called our landline DP is the person I speak to most only thing is when i don't pay my phonebill and it gets blocked  but will just have to make sure I do pay it. If I can't call then I can always txt mum. Or put DD in the car if its an emergency then you can still call 111 thats all that matters? I must look at skype too
Oh and I went years and years without a landline or internet never bothered me. When we did have the landline it was only convenient for calling between work and home really ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 10:26pm
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We will probably get rid of our land-line when our 12 mths with telecom are up. $199 if we break our contract so won't be stopping before then.
We do use our landline frequently though but half of it's use is to make mobile phone calls so thought since DF's cell is a work one, I will get myself on a decent contract before we do away with the landline - we probably won't end up saving money because of it though! |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 19 September 2010 at 9:55am
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DH and I are both on vodafone for our cellphones, I have him as my best mate and don't pay for any calls to him.
Our land line is currently with vodafone, all we would be doing is losing our home phone which we hardly ever use anyways. We're moving in a few weeks and will be losing our home phone number. Maybe a chance to go without it and see how we go. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 10:33am
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We never had a land line when we lived overseas and it wasn't a problem. We actually get quite a few calls on ours so I wouldn't cancel it but if you hardly ever use it it could be a good $ saving for you. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jjands
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 11:27am
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We don't have a landline, we have our cell phones with vodafone and I do bestmate to DH. If we really need to call someone we use the phone at DH's work.
But our broadband is $80pm and it only works some of the time!! I either have to find a cheaper provider or get rid of it 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 1:15pm
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We're currently paying $120 for 30G broadband and home phone line with vodafone. Going without a home phone line would bring our bill down to $65. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 6:26pm
| wow caliandjack if you arent on a contract with vodafone at the moment I would call and question them as we only pay $100 for exactly the same thing. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 6:44pm
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Really? I'll get DH to look into it then. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 6:55pm
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We are not in the Red Zone so Vodafone is not an option for us.
We are with Telecom & have 40GB & we pay $150 approx per month...that includes a few other things. We would not really save much by just dropping the ph. |
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 10:52am
| we are on the ultimate pack http://www.vodafone.co.nz/broadband/? |
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 10:54am
| I dont think you need to be in the red zone jazzy it just costs another $5 or $10 a month to be with vodafone I think as they are using other peoples equipment. |
Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 11:27am
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Yeah that's the info I have amme.
If your in the redzone (which we are) you pay $90? I think for the ultimate pack which is what we are on homephone and broadband included but if you are out of the redzone then you pay an extra $10. Most of Auckland is, its not until you get into the broader Auckland, so out into the waitaks, puke, papakura etc that the redzone stops. If you have extras such as voicemail caller id etc then that gets added on of course. We'll still be dropping the landline when we move. No point in us having it never gets used. And we don't use more then 5gb a month so 10gb for us will be HEAPS ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 11:40am
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I think we'll be going without to honeybun, for the $45 a month we save, there's no way I make that amount of phone calls from my cell phone. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:35pm
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I thought you had to be in the red zone, doh lol...we are central AK so would of thought we would be but...no.
We have just been upgraded to wireless Broadband & have entered into a 2yr contract with Telecom. DH is really happy about that as he relies on the BB & quick speeds. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:45pm
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We won't be either bummer. Slingshot have a similar offering will check them out. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 1:10pm
If you have no landline & only use 5-10GB a month wouldn't slingshot or others that do low users be good for you...don't know how much they are but a friend only paid about $15 a month for internet....don't know how much see used tho. |
HoneybunsMa wrote:Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 3:01pm
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were with Xnet (world communications) on their Fusion plan, and we pay $69.99 a month for a VOIP land line and broadband.
on top of that we pay $1 per GB of data used. but phone calls are SO cheap. its 27c a min to ring any cellphone (rather than 49c to ring 027 and $1.39 to ring 021, 022, 028 if your landline is with telecom) you can use this link http://www.xnet.co.nz/fusion/slider.shtml - here to play with the slider to see how much it would cost you a month. the only thing is to set it up you need a modem and a converter thingy to get the phone to work (im not a technogeek so not 100% sure on the names) but they are made by LYNKSYS and cost $200 total and its all go |
Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 5:12pm
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Jazzy from my understanding you still need a landline with most other providers. I don't need a landline I have a cellphone that does everything I need as DP is my bestmate so can call/txt/pxt him all I like and mum has me as her bestmate so she can call me when I need her. Everyone else I have enough minutes and txts to use.
I would need to look at naked broadband and from my understanding pretty much the only ones that do are snap, xnet, vodafone, and orcon Actually I did just see that slingshot does but its expensive. There are low usage deals out there but I looked through them all when I first could get out of my contract with vodafone and they are just as expensive or just a little bit less then what I got at Vodafone. For 10gb at Vodafone I would pay $55 for the same with slingshot or Orcon its $80+  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 6:25pm
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We got rid of ours recently because we were trying to save costs. We hated it, and had it put back on within the week.
Although i didnt think i used it much, i actually did. If i wanted to ring to book doctors appt, or warrant it would cost me on my cell. By the time DP & I would top up our phones to cover ringing more than usual it didnt really work out much cheaper. -------------  
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 9:34pm
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We're going to trial it, we're moving anyways so our home phone will change.
Be interesting to see how many phone calls I make and how much they cost us over the month. Calls to DH are free. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 10:28pm
See I've lived without a landline for quite awhile before and did all those phonecalls on my mobile although at the time I didn't have a child or a car, but even then if you looked at our phone bill there were maybe 10phonecalls in 90% would be to DP at work because I wanted to tell him something or he left his phone at home. Topping up cellphone doesn't come as a factor to me as I have been on a contract since I was 18 when my 2yrs for this contract comes up I will look at whether or not my plan is working and if I can change it ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 12:07am
| I have wireless home phone through Vodafone - it's only $25 a month, and offers exactly the same service as a landline, except it's run over the Vodafone cell network. I wanted to have the option of people being able to call me for free (i.e. Plunket, friends who also have landlines) without paying $55 a month. I have wireless net as well though. I pay $75 a month for 4GB net and my home phone ($70 for net, $5 for phone - special deal that they have). Haven't had any problems either. |