WWLP-22News

Report: Nearly half of U.S. households don’t use landline telephones

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Amid a nationwide strike of unionized Verizon wireline workers, a new study shows that more people are ditching their landline telephones. It’s been nearly five weeks since ...
The Spokesman-Review

Barely a third of Americans still have landlines

Do people still have landline telephones? Thus asks reader Sharon Claffey of Williamstown, Mass., echoing a question we’ve heard quite a bit this year. We’re just as curious about that as you are, ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

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

In a Saturday Nov. 12, 2011 photo, rows of old and newer telephones along with office switchboards are in the museum operated by members of the Parkersburg Council of the Telecomm Pioneers in ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In US, landlines are rare

NEW YORK — 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 ...
The Telegraph

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

Cell phone hand sets are seen on display at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics show, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Las Vegas. As Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, cell phone outage shows, sometimes ...
WSPA

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 talk to the old-fashioned way ...