I use a landline phone all the time. I only use my cell phone in case I have an outage.

Hospital, muniples, police departments, fax machines are needed for rural areas. Its still needed

Thats so stupid. When our electricity goes out we communicate with the company with our land line....because our cells are are usually dead.

When the power goes out, an old fashioned landline still works. No power needed. Digital “landlines” only work as long as the backup battery can power the cable box. I live in NYC where power goes out. I once had no power for three weeks when Hurricane Sandy hit - but at least my home phone worked. In the apartment where I currently live, I have very poor cell reception. I’m 42, disabled, and ill - and homebound. Connectivity is crucial for me. Two years ago, I had no heat or power for 3 days, and if I hadn’t been able to call ConEd, the situation would have been worse. I don’t think copper landlines should be phased out. In fact, every home should have one for safety. Phone companies often charge people more to get connected to them as compared to VoIP connections, which seems unfair for people who need and prefer copper lines.

My poor dad is 74 years old and still has the same landline that he’s had since we moved from New York to Florida at least 38 years

Landlines still have value.For business,areas with week cell signal or spotty cell reception on properties, emergency phone,you can conduct business on a landline while you play on your cell phone,no dropped calls like cell phones and you can get a landline for like $10 a month

How do blind people use cell phones? How do people blinded in an emercency dial a cell phone? Landlines will come back.

Landline still works in power outages (has its own voltage), is immune to Internet outages, and don't forget the thousands of businesses that still use Fax machines, people who still use DSL for Internet service, and every ISDN BRI/PRI still in existence.

I will never give up my landline. Businesses still use them for crying out loud and all offices. Gimme a break

Don't you use land lines for home internet? Just recently, new glass fiber cables were put in the ground at my place for that purpose.

Miss Blondie should go sell perfume at a department store there's tens of millions of people that still use landlines

I use both . Keep my landline in case of cellular outages and the opposite is also true.

Those over 65??? I'm 70 and haven't had a twisted pair phone line since 2007. While I do have a home phone, it's delivered by my cable TV company over the same cable that provides my TV and Internet services. I also have had a cell phone for 29 years. These days, telephones are such a low revenue service that it's no longer economic to provide a stand alone phone line over copper cable. As for those in rural areas, it's even more expensive to provide the service that at one time was subsidized by those living in cities.

So disappointed that Land Lines might become unavailable.

I'm a California resident. I've never owned a cellphone and never will, mostly because of my veganism, which is lifestyle as well as dietary. I've never sent or received a text. I live alone and may need to use my landline in an emergency. If AT&T cancels landline service, I'll have to choose a different provider. I think AT&T and other phone companies should want to keep landline service for reasons given in the video and for mine. I also think public payphones should become common again.

I dont own a cell phone DONT TAKE MY LANDLINE FROM ME

1:18 Malaysia is in NewsNation… for all the WRONG REASON!

Fax machines, use landlines

Then ATT should educate and supply people to have non land line those might just drop land line .

There's plenty of other phone companies willing to step in and take over landline service: Examples are Comcast, Century Link, Cox, Frontier, Community Telephone company, Satellite Country, Time Warner, to say some of many! These companies be be knocking on Californians doors to solicate selling phone service. Also there's Verizon FiOS which can be obtained by going to any Verizon phone store. Century Link and Frontier have taken over many areas that AT&T use to provide landline service and are rapidly growing!

Nooooo

I am 38 and use land line more then my shitty cell service from Verizon. Haha so when someone hacks all of our cell phones or a massive black out we will have no phones ? Haha should probably take baby steps before you leap . Cell service is still trash in many areas even with wifi calls and any call I must make without the call dropping is always land line

I live rural and don't have cell service at my house. Also, the only internet I get is DSL, which runs on the phone line.

What?

UK old landline dies end of 2025

impossible.. what a load of pish.! some medical alert systems mandatorily need landlines.! companies need landlines. hence general public can request a landline. you’re waffling on.! 🤣😂🤣 ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

but they will never remove the poles and lines! electric and telephone companies should be forced to remove the outdated infrastructure. It's an eyesore!