Time to get rid of the landline?

These days, as everyone has a cell phone, and sooner in the future when everyone will NEED one for doing about any thing in their life from unlocking their car, their home or paying for most things, "should we get rid of the good, old landline?" will become an unavoidable question.

I’m now wondering, not if but when I’ll be able to say goodbye to our own traditional phone and that same number that we’ve used for almost 35 years. Things are changing pretty fast. Today, in the USA, about 40 percent of household make do with a wireless phone. With this in mind, here are a list of pros and cons I plan to consider before, literally “cutting the cord”.

Elements against: 

• Cost of maintaining a landline. According to what I was able to gather, the average monthly cost for a landline is $15 to $30, which may not sound like much, but add up over a year and more. Sure, there are ways to keep them and use them with Google voice or even Skype, but it’s more complicated and you may have to let go of your old number. 
• Landlines are source of spam. Back in 2003, the Federal Trade Commission launched a "Do Not Call List", allowing consumers to enroll so they wouldn’t receive phone calls from telemarketers. For a while it worked, but today, with robot-calls and the like, it’s become an abject failure. 
• It could also cost more if your cable and internet are “bundled” with your landline, and dropping it might add to the cost of the remaining services. 

Elements in favor:

• Sound quality is better. Even though some might disagree, there’s a likely consensus that landlines sound a little better and there are far fewer dropped calls with them. 
• They could come in handy in emergencies. There are situations when cell phones can’t be located, are out of batteries or might not work for a variety of reasons. 

In view of all this, we’re still torn between getting rid of our landline or transfering it to say, Google voice, but we’re not quite there yet!