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Distributel is a brand [1] of Bell Canada headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, [2] founded in 1988 and offering Canadians long distance phone service. Distributel now offers a wide range of high speed Internet plans in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta as well as VoIP Digital Home Phone service across Canada.
However, for customers of Verizon, the predominant landline provider in the Northeast for decades, that transition largely occurred in the 2000s, when landlines were still prominent.
“Traditional landline telephone service is the most dependable communications tool currently available in rural communities and is vital to reliably accessing 9-1-1,” he said.
Numbers may be ported between landline and mobile. The rarely used non-geographic area code 600 is an exception to this pattern (non-portable, and allows caller-pays-airtime satellite telephony); some independent landline exchanges are also non-portable. Mobile phone providers support either CDMA or GSM; both are being supplanted by UMTS.
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.
AT&T said it plans to eliminate traditional phone landline service in 20 of its 21 states by 2029.
The landline service, which was available from mid-2005 to mid-2010, operated switches co-located in the Bell Canada network. As such, Rogers did not maintain the phone lines and was affected by the Bell Subco strike of 2005, which impaired its ability to provide timely service.
Most landlines now make calls through an internet connection. "We need to make a fundamental choice about whether our nation's communication networks should run on outdated copper or ultra-fast ...