Who Has Landlines Anymore? In The Midst Of Cell Phone Outages, Some Miss Them
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When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines
Only about a quarter of Americans even have a landline, leaving communications systems vulnerable to wireless service disruptions.
Landlines are handy to have when mobile networks go down – but they’ve disappeared from nearly 3 in 4 American households. The shift is part of a broader evolution in our expectations around communication.
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