No phone .................no parking

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More and more non mobile phone owners are being excluded from all sorts of things, last year I could not join a photo sharing website because i didn't have a mobile number.
Last month I couldn't help set up my brothers new broadband connection because he doesn't have one either.

Will a cheap phone run the apps required for these payments? or do you have to have a smart phone that costs a lot and has monthly payments?

There are a lot of pensioner friendly "smart" phones but none I have seen
admit to being able to use apps.
I noticed the Amazon "Fire" on a special offer of £99 (save £300?)

Quote: hob wrote in post #3

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Will a cheap phone run the apps required for these payments? or do you have to have a smart phone that costs a lot and has monthly payments?

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In the case of the car park having to pay twice.............once to the car park and once to have the phone so I can make the payment.

And where will it all end? It's getting to the stage where you will not be able to get by without a mobile .........so what happens to all the people who can't use one or afford one?

I understand and appreciate your concern Nev, but we are in the opposite camp because we would like to not have a landline at all and just use mobiles!

Quote: hob wrote in post #7

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In the case of the car park having to pay twice.............once to the car park and once to have the phone so I can make the payment.

And where will it all end? It's getting to the stage where you will not be able to get by without a mobile .........so what happens to all the people who can't use one or afford one?

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Quote: Frantone wrote in post #8

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I understand and appreciate your concern Nev, but we are in the opposite camp because we would like to not have a landline at all and just use mobiles!

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Quote: Frantone wrote in post #8

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I understand and appreciate your concern Nev, but we are in the opposite camp because we would like to not have a landline at all and just use mobiles!

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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #12

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Quote Frantone:- we would like to not have a landline at all and just use mobiles!

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Quote Agger :- We haven't had a home phone line for about 8 years, totally mobile

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It's OK for you city slickers but the only way we can get a mobile signal from our home is to either go into the back garden or upstairs and lean out of a window. We also have a very erratic internet signal and terrestrial TV is beamed in via a relay mast from, of all places Pembrokeshire. This is despite there being a huge TV mast overlooking the city of Swansea and an Orange (or whatever they are called "today") phone mast about 2 miles down the valley.
It's just that unlike our next door neighbour down and the rest of the village who don't have the problem, we are tucked just too far under the slope of the hillside and forest to get a clear signal.
Randa

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No wonder you charge us to get in!!!!! I always use the back road anyway

I don't give out my home phone number as it is Ex D,
I don't use my mobile much so don't give out the number.
The problem is many websites demand one or the other
or both for membership, even online retailers want more
information than a lot of folk want to give out. Some of it is
for legitimate security but I suspect the rest, like phone numbers,
are for resale