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Has the pandemic put the final nail in the landlines coffin?
2021-04-23 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
According to data from Uswitch, four million UK homes have disconnected their landlines since the millennium. Worse, of the 80% of homes that do still have a landline, around 26% do not even have a handset plugged in. Now, with the pandemic forcing everyone to remain indoors, it would be easy to think that landline usage would have increased in the past year. But, on the contrary, people have instead turned to their mobile phones or video calling services like Zoom to communicate…read more on TotalTele.com »
Accountancy giant PwC hangs up on landlines in mobile move
2018-06-29 13:14:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Staff must switch to mobiles by the end of the summer as landline phones will be phased out.
Verizon Will Fix Broadband Networks, Landlines to Resolve Investigation
2018-03-14 14:22:45| Extremetech
Verizon has come to an agreement to fix thousands of telephone poles, build out new fiber optic lines, and settle its differences with New York City. The post Verizon Will Fix Broadband Networks, Landlines to Resolve Investigation appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Frontier Stakes Its Claim on Landlines
2015-02-09 06:13:37| Telecom - Topix.net
As the telecom industry marches forward, Frontier Communications Corp. is growing quickly by snapping up the unloved telephone lines its bigger competitors are leaving behind. Its latest deal is to pay $10.54 billion for millions of Verizon Communications Inc.'s landline customers in Florida, California and Texas-a big one for a company with a market capitalization of just under $8 billion.
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Most Americans Still Want Landlines at Work
2014-12-30 20:45:39| Beverages - Topix.net
At a time when at least one-third of American households have dropped landlines altogether , old-school phones are still "very important" to Americans at work. That's according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center that explores attitudes toward technology in the workplace.
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