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Location Lines Year World 876,144,000 [a] China 179,414,000: 2022 United States 91,623,000: 2022 Japan 60,721,000: 2022 Germany 38,580,000: 2022 France 37,740,000: ...
In many countries, landline service has not been readily available to most people. In some countries in Africa, the rise in cell phones has outpaced growth in landline service. Between 1998 and 2008, Africa added only 2.4 million landlines. [5] In contrast, between 2000 and 2008, cell phone use rose from fewer than 2 in 100 people to 33 out of ...
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 ...
The share of adults over 65 who only or mostly use landlines is five times that of the following age group (45- to 64-year-olds) and over 10 times the average of all other age groups.
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
AT&T said it plans to eliminate traditional phone landline service in 20 of its 21 states by 2029.
It also purchased AT&T's landline business in Connecticut in 2013, though these are not considered an RBOC, as the Southern New England Telephone Company, from which they descend, was a franchisee of the Bell System, and not subject to the same regulations after the Bell System breakup.
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