The end of the land line?

Land line calls have fallen 50% in the last two years, which makes me wonder at the current money being spent on Fibre cabling.

In my view we will have no landlines soon, and we will all be getting our internet through whatever technology we can, 3g/4g/5g. 5G promises big things.

Data routers are now up and coming, like Three's homefi router, which you can get a monthly 100GB sim and with GoBinge, no data comes out of your package for a lot of services.

The future I think seems to be that the landline is dead, which is a win win for us. For far too long companies like BT and I am sure Eircom have been ripping us off and making us have a landline along with an internet feed, this was never needed and was a ploy to get more money out of you. An internet feed solely was available but we were "not allowed" it.

Think of all that cabling running around the countries that will no longer be needed, that's a lot of copper!

The fibre cable is needed to connect the transmission / receiving masts to the world wide web data servers.
Yes there will be local area wireless broadband/ mobile signal which will make the roadside phone line redundant but equally each signal hub will need a cable connection to carry all of the information.
Malcolm

Yes. But they are still laying it to residential homes. The English GVT have been giving BT millions of pounds to upgrade people.

Unfortunately I'm reliant on a landline, mobile coverage is real bad as is mobile broadband at home, even with an outdoor arial.

I find this topic interesting but I’m just a novice and don’t understand it all. Does one not need to have a land line to have wireless throughout the house? My printer is a wireless one so I need wireless to print.

No, you notice no difference. It is a router, it just picks up the telephone masts instead of a fixed wire and fires it around your house as WiFi.

I’m lucky enough to have 68Mbps where I am less than 1/4 mile from a new exchange but I will keep the landline as in emergencies when mobiles drop out the landline still works. It costs money but I remember just a couple of years ago in storm Darwin all the cell towers had gone down because they had no power and our landline still worked.
It’s like anything you may not need it but you’re damn glad of it when you do need it.

We have four networks in the same house, I doubt we would lose them all PAYG sim cards have their uses

BT took 4 days to fix it.

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