Has the time actually arrived?
"Illinois customers stubbornly hanging on to your old landline telephone service, AT&T has a new plan for you: Switch to a modern alternative or face disconnection.
With traditional landline service dwindling to less than 10 percent of Illinois households in its territory, AT&T is pushing legislation in Springfield that, pending Federal Communications Commission approval, would allow it to unplug the aging voice-only network and focus on the wireless and internet-based phone offerings that have supplanted it."
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I abhor the usage of the word "stubbornly" in the article above.
We still have -- and regularly use -- our landline.
For confidential/sensitive conversations, it's the best option.
And it's almost 100% reliable -- ready for use with no worry whether the battery is charged or not.
Out for now........
Matt