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Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

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Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number.

You can share the number across as many as five smartphones.

Verizon Family Plus with Family Line will cost you an extra $10 a month.

My wife and I got rid of our landline years ago, relying solely on our individual mobile phones to make and receive calls. One feature I miss about our home phone was the way we could share a single household number and even join in on the same call. Now Verizon is bringing back those halcyon days of old.

Family Line assigns a shared number

Available with a new monthly add-on called Verizon Family Plus, the Family Line feature assigns you a single number to share across up to five smartphones. Every Verizon Family Plus user can call, answer, or join in on the same conversation.

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