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

Languishing Landlines

A bank of phones are seen at the Karnes County Residential Center July 31, 2014, in Karnes City, Texas. If this week’s crippling AT&T network outage showed anything, it’s that landlines have practically reached urban legend status in today’s America.

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

Cellphones fail. Should you have a landline phone for emergencies?

During an AT&T Wireless service outage Thursday, multiple cities’ emergency services suggested using a landline if you need to call 911.

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

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 Thursday, the day of the outage. “But I…