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Still love your landline? Phone service providers are getting closer to phasing it out | CNN Business
More people who are still using telephone landlines will soon need to decide if they want to finally hang up on their service.
Providers worldwideare shiftingtoward offering fiber optics and ethernet access and retiring older equipment, including the copper wires themselves. Consumers will have to decide whether to give up their landlines or potentially face higher costs because of complex, expensive workarounds fromthe phone companies. As part of the change, US service providers are required to offer customers an alternative to landlines and use devices to convert analog signals to digital, either through fiber optic cables or wireless technology, like LTE/5G.
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