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Kristen Soltis Anderson

When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.

American Writer

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

American Journalist

John Sununu

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

American Politician

Glenn Greenwald

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

Meghan Daum

Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.

American Author

Juhi Chawla

I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.

Indian Actress

Rainbow Rowell

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

Saswata Chatterjee

If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.

Steve Hilton

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

British Businessman

Reed Hastings

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

American Businessman

Landlines are less common now due to mobile phones, but still used in many places for reliability.

Technological Shift

People often keep a landline as a backup for emergencies or when cell service is poor.

Emergency Use

Businesses frequently use landlines, as they're considered more professional than mobile numbers.

Business Formality

 thousands of miles from the high voltage cable over the place it's like what happened with landline phones versus cellular phones in love developed countries they just didn't do the landline phones they just we're straight cellulose we actually did the calculations say like what would it take to transition the whole world to its sustainable

Welcome to the...

 That you're much better off, almost universally, looking for a low-cost or locally applicable version of the newest technology. One place we're all familiar with seeing this is with cell phones. Right? All throughout the developing world, people are going directly to cell phones, skipping the whole landline stage.

Alex Steffen: The route...

 which means, you don't need to go to the landline telephone before you get to the mobile phones. Same way we don't need to go to fossil fuels to the one billion people who don't have access to energy before we get to the clean energy. And fifth and last, we need to share responsibility between governments,

Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful...

 And as I grew up, it became worse and worse, And I started to think of it as a form of control. But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected figure in the Indian family. And the situation that irked me and mystified me the most was his use of a landline telephone.

Aparna Rao: High-tech...

 even as the quality went up. And low-income countries, places that did not have a landline grid -- they leap-frogged to the new technology. The big expansion has been in the developing counties. So what about the electricity grids in the developing world?

The case for optimism on...

 where the uncertainty is highest. And when you get a radical innovation, it's often very uncertain how it can be applied. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty. The very first landline telephones,

Charles Leadbeater: The...

 and all over the world traditional voter contact is going to become much much harder I am 34 I have never mailed anything I've never used a landline and I really i don't think i remember the last time I knocked on a door but that's

Prediction from 2013:...

 The average waiting time to get a landline in Ethiopia is actually about seven or eight years. But wireless technology wasn't dreamt up then. Anyway, I'm Irish, and as you can see, I know how important talking is.

Bono: Action for Africa

 and phone how could you stay connected with those those folks it's a beautiful question a couple of things one is if they have a phone line and that's a big if but if they have a phone line a landline ways

How to create meaningful...

 it's very very important that you know people understand that we're not there to take elephant and put them into a learn minefield the idea is to bring the landline field to the elephants so if we

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