From inventor Alex G. Plum, The Plum Telephone Company is connecting the first transcontinental copper telegraph & telephone line to your local exchange.

Plum Telephone Co. replaces your Sims' mobile phones with a physical landline and dial tone. The Plum TelCo Telephone includes nearly all interactions available from the original phone (including Mods) and plays a custom animation in its place.

You'll sometimes receive a call from a friend or family to chat, hang out, or travel! Up to 3 incoming calls will be scheduled each day. With multiple Sims now sharing a phone line, if a Sim answers a call intended for someone else the caller will ask for the Sim and wait on hold if they're available. If you don't answer after a period of time they'll hang up.

Special thanks to SurelySims for creating the Telephone model and thepancake1 for animating.

Please Note:

The Telephone can currently only be used by Teens and older.
Currently supports Dining Tables, Counters, and some Short Dressers.

80s Tech Upgrades

Install the Caller ID Upgrade to get a notification when the Telephone rings, identifying the caller.
Install the Answering Machine Upgrade to let callers leave a message if you're not available at the moment. Check the Answering Machine on the Telephone to "listen" to your messages. The messages are customized based on the call type and your Outgoing Message.
Both upgrades are installed for the entire lot and automatically apply to every phone.

Disable Mobile Phone Access for an individual Sim by shift + clicking and toggling the setting under the Plum Telephone Co category. The Mobile Phone in the UI will be disabled, and if you have the latest version of the Smarter Phone Use mod, it will also disable their autonomous use and idles.

This currently does not disable the Mobile Phone calls and texts. You can reduce those by toggling the Friendly/Romantic Invites and Requests setting in your Game Settings under Gameplay.
Sims will still need to use their Mobile Phone to answer career related calls.

View the full Getting Started guide on lot51.cc