Landlines? One quarter of Europeans go without<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve one of them<\/p>\n
I cancelled my landline about six months ago as i couldn’t really see the point in keeping it. I get my broadband via cable instead of ADSL and my mobile contract gives me more minutes than i know what to do with<\/p>\n
My wife rarely makes calls anyway so\u00a0i was paying for line rental on a service that for most of the day i couldn’t use as everyone in the household is away at work!<\/p>\n
I hear similar stories when speaking to other people but they talk about needing the line for their broadband access<\/p>\n
In addition there is also the option of various VOIP services that could take the place of a fixed landline if i really really needed one<\/p>\n
Where do people see this trend going?<\/p>\n
I wonder how many of the other three quarters of Europe are only keeping their landline active because of ADSL<\/p>\n
Cable service providers are possibiliy missing a trick as they don’t seem to push this angle. When doing their marketing campaigns they usually compare their month broadband prices on a like for like basis. If i were in charge of their marketing i’d also be makiing a big deal of the fact that you could potentially lose the fixed landline saving more per month<\/p>\n
But what do i know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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