10 Places you Expect to See a Landline Phone

Seeing a landline phone in homes is becoming much less common. Pay phones are almost extinct. In spite of the rise in cellular phones and VoIP phones, there are still some places you can still expect to find landline telephones.

1. Local Telephone Service Office – If they’re providing landline service, you would assume that you would still find landline phones in their office. Their service techs probably all carry cell phones, but the office still should have the landline phones.
2. Hotel Rooms – Hotel rooms still have landline phones in them. They are seldom used for anything besides communication between the guest and the front desk, but they are still there – for the time being.
3. Hospital Rooms – The landline phone still remains a staple element in most hospital rooms. Since cell phone usage is either discouraged or forbidden in some hospital areas, landline phones may remain a fixture in these areas.
4. Nursing Homes – Most elderly care facilities will have landline phones for their residents. It causes one to wonder if that will change as the next generation begins to fill those places, a generation of men and women used to communicating wirelessly.
5. 911 Call Center – These emergency call centers will generally have landline phones for their operators to use.
6. Oval Office – The President’s phone has been a landline for as long as there has been one in the Oval Office. As little time as the President actually spends in his office, I would imagine he speaks on a mobile phone much more often than the landline.
7. Retirement housing – Cell phones are certainly being used by many of the retired generation, but they are still the least likely to own one. You can usually expect to find a landline phone in retirement apartments and villas.
8. Fax Services – Faxes are still sent over landlines. If a business using or offers fax services, then they will usually have a landline phone, since they need the landline service for the fax machine.
9. Telethon – They still do fundraising through telethons where volunteers answer the phones as contributors call in. A whole bank of landline phones are usually employed to cover the many calls being received.
10. Hotel Front Desk – We mentioned the phone in the hotel room earlier, but anyone who has checked into a hotel knows there are landline phones at the front desk. They tend to ring frequently while you’re trying to get checked in or out.

Cell phone service has not yet equaled the reliability and clear sound that you can usually expect from a landline phone. For some applications, they may remain the standard for quite some time.

Taken From Landline Phone Service