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Has the pandemic put the final nail in the landlines coffin?

2021-04-23 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

According to data from Uswitch, four million UK homes have disconnected their landlines since the millennium. Worse, of the 80% of homes that do still have a landline, around 26% do not even have a handset plugged in.    Now, with the pandemic forcing everyone to remain indoors, it would be easy to think that landline usage would have increased in the past year. But, on the contrary, people have instead turned to their mobile phones or video calling services like Zoom to communicate…read more on TotalTele.com »

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