Increasingly, US Households Going Cell Phone Only

Landline phones upgraded to FIOS.(Fiber Optic) Will only work for a short time without power depending on your battery backup system.Cellphones work fine without power it's when cell towers fail that there are problems.

I bundled my house phone when i transfered from sprint to verizon. I put my husbands,mine and the house phone on a package. Im saving 90 a month.
The only reason i kept my landline for so long is just incase someone called who did not know my parents passed away. It was not worth the 60 a month after fees and taxes and if they sneezed.

Hope: In a power outage, land lines do not work. Over the years I had more problems with land lines vs. cells. I ditched my home phone service nearly 2 years ago and haven't had a problem since. Give it time...land lines will go the way of the typewriter, VCRs and other outdated technologies,

Last time I checked, cell phones are not controlled by electricity. My cell phone works just fine when the lights go out.What kind of phone do you have?!

After Hurricane Ivan we were without much of any service. BUT, the good old land line phone still worked, so we were able to communicate with the outside world. I will never give my land line up.

What does having a power failure have to do with losing the ability to use a cell phone?

Calling 911 from a land line ensures an emergency response, even if you can't complete the call and give details of the problem. This is because your address pops up on the local police departments dispatchers screen. Call 911 on a cell phone and good luck getting help fast. Not only does your call go to the highway patrol centralized dispatch and then has to be routed to the local authorities, but if you can't get out your location for some reason, they will never find you. I'm a cop and see it all the time. Keep a land line if you can afford it.

well your phone may work in a power outage but how the heck does the tower work it runs off of ele

granted some have backup power but not all and those that do i far and few between

Analog didn't die. The Gov't killed it. I gave up my cell phone because it cost double what my land line cost and the phones become obsolete every 6 months. The only time I ever used it was to call radio stations and the one time I really needed it, the signal was blocked by buildings. Enjoy your cell phone.

If you only use your phone to call put of town, then your phone is not obselete. The only time that happens is to those of us that actiually USE the phone for all of its functions. Yes it costs double what the land line costs, but you can take it anywhere and get long distance. Make some long distance calls on that landline and then compare bills. The government.... Haha, how about Sony and all the other tv manufacturers, they don't make analogs televisions anymore so why have the system in place. I guess for you Dallas and your landline

Check the coverage map for any carrier. There's a lot of rural area (look at Alaska) without any coverage. That is why landlines cannot die. Unless everybody switches to satellite phones. And even those could probably get overloaded like cell towers do. It doesn't take a disaster to do that. Try to get through to someone on their cell phone at the big football game just as everyone is leaving.

Damien ~
While land lines will SOME day be obsolete, it will be a LONG time before that happens! Where I live, there is absolutely no cell service, no television and VERY few radio stations... heck, we don't even have cable, anolog, digital or otherwise! Until THAT type of situation is corrected, land lines will be hanging on.
I have noticed a LOT of people seem to think they will have cell service even during a major power failure. WRONG! While all your individual cell phones will power up because they have batteries, the cell phone TOWERS rely on continuous electric service. While there may be SOME towers with a battery backup or generator, they are few and far between.
Another problem with cell phones seems they jam up with heavy use much quicker than a land line. Since cell phones are just radio transceivers, they all operate on limited radio frequencies and you can only have just so many radios in one spot. With land lines, there can be thousands more connections since they are wired in and do not count on the limits of radio frequency.
There will still be a place for land lines for a very long time. The phone companies are investing millions in setting up fiber optics phone lines. Fiber optic service is just about THE fastest connection you can get for your computer, it is much more difficult to intercept a signal on fiber optics making it more secure and each single fiber can carry something like ten times more than any copper wire.

Same thing happened when the Twin Towers went down. Hubby works in NYC and I could only reach him using our home land line. All of the cell sites were being reserved for emergency services.