To get the money to help connect all U.S. households to the Net, the government would levy new taxes on your telephone landline and on calls made from mobile phones.
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.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
There are good parts of the world where there simply never will be a universal landline telephone network.
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Brin quickly adjusted them to his face, before walking off to his wife, who was calling into an interview through a landline telephone.
The practical difficulties of the North Korea's rugged terrain have in the past made efforts to build a traditional landline telephone network time consuming and expensive.
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.
For we know that in a country without a landline telephone system then an increase of 10 in 100 who have a mobile phone increases GDP growth by 0.5%.
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And if you have these young voters that are 18 to 35, they haven't gotten a phone call and they're not on anyone's list because they never had a landline telephone.
Wireless has begun to replace it as some people drop their landline service: but currently it is a basic assumption that all can, even if not will, have a landline telephone service.
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Think of landline telephone networks for example.
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Mr Hartshorn's solicitor Geoff Ellis applied for bail and chairman of the bench David Stenton said this would be granted with a number of conditions including a curfew and a ban on using any electronic communication device, except a landline telephone.
The Philippine cellphone market has been growing at an exceptional rate, riding on the crest of the popularity of SMS (short messaging system), in which subscribers send text messages to each other, and on the poor service of the largest landline and longtime telephone monopoly PLDT, which operates Globe's closest cellular rival, Smart.
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.
The increase in telephone-services spending masks an even higher rise in cellphone bills, because people have been paying less for landline service.
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