Are Landlines Becoming Obsolete. Over the next few years all landline phones will be replaced with a digital network also known as an IP network. While the FCC has been slow to decide it announced just last month that voluntary experiments in the transition to VoIP could begin.
Chances are your house phone doesnt work like you think it does. Depends upon how you think phones are connected. Similar trends exist Down Under where industry analysts expect 14 million Aussies to cancel their landlines by the end of 2008.
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Over the next few years all landline phones will be replaced with a digital network also known as an IP network. Phones with a curly wire coming out of them plugged into a wall. By contrast VoIP-based phones offer better value to both households and small businesses that want to maintain a fixed phone system. The global telecoms landscape has changed dramatically in the last ten years as mobile phone ownership has boomed and internet telephony has taken off.
