Of adults between the ages of 25 and 29, nearly half live in homes without landline phones.
Telecom companies should look for continued flatness in landline activity, with moderate growth in cellular.
If a storm has knocked out physical phone lines, no landline attempts will be successful.
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Looking around his headquarters it is striking that you hardly see a phone, landline or mobile.
She laughed and replied, "No, I picked up a 1970s landline phone at a yard sale!"
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For a parallel, you could look to another victim of the times, the landline phone.
The company saw favorable growth in its mobile business in particular while landline services continued declining.
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TalkTalk remains the most complained about landline and broadband provider, according to UK regulator Ofcom.
Calls can be placed to any mobile or landline phone, either in Japan or overseas.
Also much traffic is carried to its destination via landline networks to complete calls.
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Telcel has about 70% of mobile customers and landline company Telmex has about 80% market share.
If that day comes to landline broadband and video, it will be after much hand-wringing.
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Those countries that do not have a landline network now never will have one.
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But if you're facing hefty landline bills, it could end up paying for itself pretty quickly.
As the years have passed, cellular service, far more than landline connections, is what people want.
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China Telecom is an integrated telecom service provider of China offering both mobile and landline services.
At current rates the last landline in America will be disconnected sometime in 2025.
As they went from poor to rich they too would be wired up to landline networks.
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It is ideal for those living in areas in which high-speed landline connections are just not available.
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Most businesses have built up years of equity in their landline numbers-their primary identities in the customer world.
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This is Ofcom's sixth quarterly report on the state of complaints in the mobile, broadband and landline markets.
The likely changes will affect not only contracts for mobile phones but also for broadband and landline services.
This has enabled several thousands to gain access to phone lines, mobile and landline, electricity, gas and water.
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The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone among a random national sample of 1, 007 U.S. adults.
There are good parts of the world where there simply never will be a universal landline telephone network.
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Throughout the industry, the landline segment has been facing severe secular problems, which the recession will only accentuate.
Users can neither call a Facebook friend who is logged in through the website or call a landline.
The currently rich nations were basically wired up for landline networks over the course of the past century.
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We'd still prefer something like Cingular's FastForward cradle, which forwards calls in the opposite direction, from cellphone to landline.
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Now, for a fraction of the cost of a traditional landline, Skype users could call anyone around the world.
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