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  2. Who still owns a landline phone? You might be surprised at ...

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    Fewer than one-quarter of Americans still have landlines. More than three-quarters of Americans live in homes without landlines: 76% of adults and 87% of children, as of the end of 2023, according ...

  3. Ringing (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    A ring generator or ringing voltage generator is a device which outputs 20 cycle sinusoidal AC at up to 110 volts peak to power bells or annunciators in one or more telephone extensions. [4] The output stops if a handset is taken off the hook. In terminology devised by phone phreaks, a ringing generator is a magenta box.

  4. Ringback number - Wikipedia

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    Hanging up the phone after this would result in a ring back. When the ring back was answered, the ring back process could be repeated by hanging up and lifting up the phone quickly again, and then hanging up. Most other numbers listed for ringback are specific to one exchange or one telco; available lists tend to be outdated and unreliable.

  5. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In rural areas with magneto crank telephones connected to party lines, the local phone number consisted of the line number plus the ringing pattern of the subscriber. To dial a number such as "3R122" meant making a request to the operator the third party line (if making a call off your own local one), followed by turning the telephone's crank ...

  6. Remember the landline? Here’s what happened when the old ...

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  7. 'The phone keeps ringing': Las Vegas landlord shocked by the ...

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    That means you’d need to earn an annual salary in the range of $60,000 to $75,000 to only spend around one-third of your income on rent — and that’s without factoring in other housing ...

  8. Last-call return - Wikipedia

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    Call again, a form of automatic ring back, allows a caller, on reaching a busy signal, to hang up, dial a special code, and be called back automatically when the called number is no longer busy, usually with a limit of 30 minutes. Call return allows a customer to dial a code that identifies the last incoming call. On some types of central ...

  9. AT&T Wants To Cut the Cord on Your Landline Phone - AOL

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    If AT&T (T) has its way, your traditional landline phone (assuming you still have one) might be going the way of the dodo bird. On a recent conference call to investors, Chairman and CEO Randall ...