NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down Feb. 22 because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk
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Landlines have practically reached the status of urban legend among many Americans today. According to the most recent estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics, about 73 percent of American adults in 2022 lived in households where there were only wireless phones.
NEW YORK When her cellphone s service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.