I have not gotten rid of my land line nor my fax line. My family & I all have AT&T but the land lines here and most of the cells are Verizon. Well once the AT&T cell towers had problems and I thought about getting a Verizon cell phone. But then Verizon lines went down here a couple of years ago for the entire weekend. Well one way or another i always have a working line. I live in a rural area where the nearest big city is 70 miles away.