I am thinking about dropping my home phone in favor of a cell.

[Wcross]

My phone company (Bellsouth) can not seem to provide me with continuous connectivity on my home phone line. I work an odd work-week and I am home during the weekday on some days. I lose my dial tone on average, once or twice a week from around noon til 7pm. There have been 2-3 day outages in the past few months.
I am thinking about going to a cell phone and dropping the land line. What are the drawbacks? Has anybody had any experience with doing that? I keep thinking that it would be better to have a cell than a land-line.

[Gothic Sponge]

1. I got rid of my landline last year.

No problems to report. I saved a ton of money doing it.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. I've only got a cell phone.

The big problem is dropping phone calls/not getting reception when you need it. It can be a major annoyance, but it doesn't happen enough for me to justify getting a land line. Depends on how much you need absolute reliability.

[liberalitch]

3. best thing i ever did....

And it is much cheaper..... just make sure you buy enough minutes..... if you're not a big talker 800- 1000 should be enough.

Altell gives you 100 free roaming minutes BUT ntelos has plans with no roaming.... if you travel or live in the mountains or a rural place

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. I use the landline for DSL only.

I dropped down a bare-bones service plan that pretty much just gives me a dial tone. The cell phones were a better value, mainly because SBC sucks so bad.