Google unveils landline phone, which lives in cloud
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud.
Telecom
Mar 29, 2016
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News tagged with landlines
Email, Internet remain top workplace tools: study
Americans see email and the Internet as the most important tools for productivity at work, and still prefer landlines over cellphones for the office, a study showed Tuesday.
Internet
Dec 30, 2014
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500Mbps G.fast gets ITU first stage approval
(Phys.org) —G.fast, the 500Mbps successor to DSL and alternative to fiber has passed first stage approval from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The move paves the way for hardware companies to finalize equipment ...
AT&T wants out of landline business
US telecom giant AT&T has asked US regulatory authorities to waive a requirement that it and other carriers maintain costly landline networks.
Telecom
Dec 31, 2009
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Vonage makes free international calls standard
(AP) -- Unlimited domestic phone calls are nearly standard feature for landline plans these days. Now, Vonage Holdings Corp., which helped pioneer that feature with its Internet phone service, is expanding it to most international ...
Telecom
Aug 19, 2009
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Phone home and call likely answered on the cell
(AP) -- In a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones has for the first time surpassed those that just have traditional landlines. It is the freshest evidence ...
Telecom
May 6, 2009
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Fleeing customers haunt phone co. in New England
(AP) -- Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor of wireless phones or phone service from cable TV providers. So the last thing FairPoint Communications Inc. needed was to ...
Telecom
Mar 12, 2009
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Emergency 911 technology struggles to keep up with the times
High school students hiding from the gunman in Parkland, Florida, were forced to whisper in calls to 911 for fear of tipping off their location. Others texted friends and family who then relayed information to emergency dispatchers ...
Telecom
May 16, 2018
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How landline phones made us happy and connected
Smartphones and the internet have revolutionised society, commerce, and politics, reshaping how we work and play, and how our brains are wired. They have even revolutionised how revolutions are made.
Other
Mar 5, 2018
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Some cling to landlines, but cell-only homes now dominate
Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group—people with a landline phone at home.
Telecom
May 4, 2017
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Landline
A landline (or land line) was originally an overland telegraph wire, as opposed to an undersea cable. Currently, landline (or land phone or main line or fixed-line) refers to a telephone line which travels through a solid medium, either metal wire or optical fibre, as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, where transmission is via radio waves. In 2003, the CIA reported approximately 1.263 billion main telephone lines worldwide. China had more than any other country, at 350 million, and the United States was second with 268 million. In 2008 there were 1.27 billion fixed line subscribers in the world.
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