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.
Calls can be placed to any mobile or landline phone, either in Japan or overseas.
Although it did better on broadband complaints, TalkTalk generated the most negative feedback about its fixed landline phone services.
If you're subscribed to BT's landline phone service, you may want to keep an eye on your bill in the near future.
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Another attractive telecommunications company in Korea is KT Corporation (nyse: KTC - news - people ), South Korea's largest landline phone service.
Nextdoor verifies each person's address by using one of four methods: credit- or debit-card number, landline phone number, mobile-phone number or by mailing a postcard that includes an invite code.
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Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
Becca Mishkin, a resident of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, doesn't have a regular landline phone, so she relied on her cell phone to keep in touch with family.
This pace is akin to the adoption of cell phones a decade ago as landline phone companies stood flat-footed not worrying about the little upstart at less than 1% of marketshare.
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You may have given up your landline phone altogether.
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Sandy has also shown a weakness in cable and phone companies' largely-fiber infrastructure over which they deliver "triple plays" of landline phone service along with video and broadband to millions of customers.
Those phone companies have encroached on cable's turf by entering the pay-TV business and are positioning themselves to offer a "quadruple play" of services that includes landline phone, high-speed Web access, cellphone, and video.
The company also touted its new calling feature, "myFaves, " which allows T-Mobile customers on specific billing plans unlimited nationwide calling to their five favorite people, regardless of whether they use a competing wireless or landline phone service.
It's been a long time since we've thought of our cordless landline phone as cutting-edge the last time we upgraded was to get a phone with a headset jack, hardly something at the forefront of technology.
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The Conservatives said they also forced the government to backtrack on the plans to levy a charge on landline phone bills - due to come into force in October - to pay for the universal roll-out of broadband.
The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone among a random national sample of 1, 007 U.S. adults.
Greenberg says she is already experimenting with surveys that include a mix of landline, cell phone, text message and Internet answers.
It involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1, 004 adults nationwide.
Currently more than 1.1m people are signed up to receive the flood warnings which can be sent by email, text, or a message to a landline or mobile phone.
Looking around his headquarters it is striking that you hardly see a phone, landline or mobile.
Orange offers a "triple play" package to its customers which bundles mobile phone, landline and broadband services as an all-in-one deal.
Ofcom said it monitored a six-month period last year when 71% of people with a landline had a marketing phone call and 63% had a recorded message.
Communication has moved from the telephone landline to the mobile phone to Internet telephony with Skype to now apps like GroupMe with mobile communications services which do not rely on a PC or telephone number.
If a storm has knocked out physical phone lines, no landline attempts will be successful.
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He said he went to the home of Keith Hyatt, on the Fishermead Estate in Milton Keynes, and received a phone call on the landline from Miss Manning.
This has enabled several thousands to gain access to phone lines, mobile and landline, electricity, gas and water.
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The cash was to buy a confidential directory of the royal family's landline telephone numbers, and all the phone numbers - including mobiles - of the household staff.
This includes your mobile phone bill as well as your landline.
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