Top 20 Benefits of landline over mobile phone

Benefits of landline over mobile phone

Issues	Landline	Mobile phone
Billing	At the end of the month	Prepaid at the beginning of the month
Savings	Saves one month interest	Service provider uses your money to earn interest.
Handsets	Avg life of handset 20 years If cordless 3 to 5 years	Avg life maximum 3years
Capital cost	One handset of Rs.1000 for 20 years. One cordless handset of Rs.2000 every 5 years Rs.10000 Savings in capital cost on handset upto Rs.1 lakh in 20years	One handset every 3 years @ Rs.20000 for 20 years around Rs.1.5 lakhs
Internet	Unlimited Internet @2mbps @Rs.600 pm. (MTNL triband combo plan). Higher usage higher savings compared to 3G/4G	Limited @3G/4G@ Rs.300 per GB. Avg monthly usage 20 GB comes to Rs.6000 per month
WIFI	All devices can access if WIFI installed.	Only limited one device
Call Drops	Zero. Excellent call quality	20 to 50% call drops with disturbance in call quality.
Call charges	Re.1 per call (MTNL triband combo plan) Unlimited from 10pm to 7am to any network(MTNL) Unlimited WIFI can be used for unlimited facetime or whatsapp calls.	Re.1 per call if best SP such as Vodafone chosen. With rate cutter effective rate 0.50 paise. This is far lesser than capital cost invested in hanset.
Radiation	Zero radiation	Adverse effect on health as well as enviorment.
Disturbance	Nil disturbance and distraction	Full time disturbance and distraction in form of continuous notifications from apps
Update cost	Zero	Capital cost plus internet cost for software and app updates
Protection/Security cost	Zero	Handset protection cost in form of skins and anti virus cost for software
Camera	No camera	Not equivalent to any DSLR cameras
Portability	Cordless available	Full portability
Chatting	Rich media chatting(Audio and video) via unlimited internet on mobile through wifi	Limited to selected plan. Fear of cost over run
After sales service	Excellent	Very poor or rare
Reachability	Whenever and wherever really required	Even at unwanted places
Advertisement calls	Nil	Every 2 hours unwanted calls
Waste of time	Nil Time saved = Money saved	Around 90% waste of time in receiving unwanted calls, messages and notifications.
Deletion time	No text messages hence No deletion required.	Daily 15 minutes = 5475 minutes per year.