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Originally Posted by GarnetAndBlack
It's to the point that if a cell network fails you can bet the landlines have failed too. Verizon is mostly fiber (the same fiber that connects landline terminals) and has generators at almost every site.
With the state of landlines now, I honestly trust a cell phone more.
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This.
And this:
"Telecom giants AT&T and Verizon Communications are lobbying states, one by one, to hang up the plain, old telephone system, what the industry now calls POTS--the copper-wired landline phone system whose reliability and reach made the U.S. a communications powerhouse for more than 100 years.
The two providers want to lay the crumbling POTS to rest and replace it with Internet Protocol-based systems that use the same wired and wireless broadband networks that bring Web access, cable programming and, yes, even your telephone service, into your homes. You may think you have a traditional landline because your home phone plugs into a jack, but if you have bundled your phone with Internet and cable services, you're making calls over an IP network, not twisted copper wires.
California, Florida, Texas, Georgia,
North Carolina, Wisconsin and Ohio are among states that agree telecom resources would be better redirected into modern telephone technologies and innovations, and will kill copper-based technologies in the next three years or so."
Prepare to Hang Up the Phone, Forever - WSJ
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