Decline in Landline Numbers Makes Case for Forbearance, USTelecom Says
The continued decline in the number of customers with traditional landline phone service bolsters USTelecom’s petition for forbearance (see 1410070050) from “archaic regulations that divert spending to narrowband networks and perpetuate inefficient legacy network architecture,” the association said in a…
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blog post Tuesday. By the end of 2015, more than half of households nationally will be using only wireless phones for voice service, and only about 5 percent will be using traditional switched lines, wrote USTelecom Senior Vice President-Communications Anne Veigle. Only 10 percent of households will get most or all their phone service from incumbents, the post said. The data was based on FCC landline data, as well as Centers for Disease Control national and state wireless data, the post said.