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  2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Cordless phones became widely used in home and workplaces during the early 1980s. According to The New York Times, the number of cordless phones sold in the United States grew from 50,000 in 1980 to 1 million in 1982. They quickly became popular because of their convenience and portability, despite fears that their reliance on radio signals ...

  3. Landline - Wikipedia

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    Landline service is typically provided through the outside plant of a telephone company's central office, or wire center. The outside plant comprises tiers of cabling between distribution points in the exchange area, so that a single pair of copper wire, or an optical fiber, reaches each subscriber location, such as a home or office, at the network interface.

  4. Wireless home phone - Wikipedia

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    A wireless home phone service is a service that allows a regular wired telephone to connect to a cellular network, as if it were a mobile phone. [1] [2] It is an example of a wireless last mile connection to the public switched telephone network, also known as a wireless local loop.

  5. 8 Things Boomers Are Still Paying for That No One Else Is - AOL

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    2. Landline Phones. Most people ditched landlines ages ago, but Boomers keep them alive — partly out of nostalgia, partly due to fears of being surveilled, and definitely, because they’re ...

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

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    Landline lovers sometimes band together when telecom companies move to ditch old-style, copper-wire telephone service. (Official industry term: plain old telephone service .)

  7. Telecommunications - Wikipedia

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    As of 2015, the landline telephones in most residential homes are analogue—that is, the speaker's voice directly determines the signal's voltage. [72] Although short-distance calls may be handled from end-to-end as analogue signals, increasingly telephone service providers are transparently converting the signals to digital signals for ...