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This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

Landline phones are becoming rare in the US, with 73% of adults living in wireless-only households in 2022.
The rise of smartphones, like the iPhone in 2007, shifted phones from voice communication to data-saturated computers.
The outage during the AT&T network problem showed the importance of having landlines as backup communication.

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This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines

5 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines. But according to the most recent estimates

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This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

When her cellphone’s service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way – on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone. Read full story

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This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When her cellphone’s service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone. “Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, resident said Thurs…

5 months ago·Panama City, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

NEW YORK (AP) — When her cellphone’s service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to […]

5 months ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

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This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

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