In Finland many news outlets had the same headline, but needed to correct it. It's the last big operator who closed their network. There are still a couple of smaller local operators that have not yet stopped. Finland traditionally had many local phone companies and a few have obviosly survived.
Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
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Re: Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
#32My biggest complaint as a user of an old analogue touchtone (the classic AT&T wallmount you're thinking of right now , in red) is: fiberoptic VOIP "telephone lines" don't have the wattage to ring a classic brass bellset – which is okay if you're like me and never want your phone to ring – but sometimes you need this feature. You can't even imagine how difficult it is to even source a corded telephone locally (outside…
Off topic, but how do you operate without email? Is it not essential for many government services and utilities where you are?
(Here, it is technically optional for utilities but is an additional $10/month to have your electricity bill posted to you instead of emailed. The tax office requires email as does my bank though - I just checked.)
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#34Soon to be repeated in the UK, by the end of January 2027. We've now passed the tipping point where doing telephony end-to-end entirely over IP is cheaper that keeping the baseband analog PSTN going. The main network backbone, of course, has been all-VoIP for years. It's taken British telcos years to plan for this, and it's been put off a couple of times to deal with practical problems such as situations where you ab…
>We've now passed the tipping point where doing telephony end-to-end entirely over IP is cheaper that keeping the baseband analog PSTN going. The main network backbone, of course, has been all-VoIP for years. Is it really or is one just more profitable because you can charge more for IP than analog? I came here to ask this because it genuinely feels like a way to remove cheaper alternatives.
Mandating that the analogue system be kept limping along in parallel would not be a cheaper alternative.
Re: Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because copper wires could carry enough power to make a landline work when the mains electricity was off due to a power cut Edit: also domestic routers are buggy and unreliable and need to be restarted regularly
Why is why landlines can easily have a battery. And my cell has one built in
And when the battery is empty, it is empty.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then they can't use a wall phone either.
plain not true, my grandmother can use a wall phone but not a mobile phone
Is she using a wheel dial? Otherwise, the user interface is almost the same for wall phones and cell phones for seniors. Except that you have to press the dial button for it to dial.
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Why is why landlines can easily have a battery. And my cell has one built in
And when the battery is empty, it is empty.
And device companies have gone out of their way to prevent removeable/extra batteries (not talking about power banks).
Having to worry about the CO power, house power, device power, and the power going to towers is a little much for my taste.