Are U.S. Phone Landlines in Danger of Being Disconnected?
 

The old copper wire telephone network as we know it is on the way out and the FCC is making preparations to make the transition to modern Internet digital protocol systems. "Almost everyone will be off this network in the next four years. It is a dead model walking."

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