How long did it take for landlines to go away? i got rid of mine 16 years ago. Several years ago i cut cable but i gave in a few years ago and reconnected because people wanted to watch sports.
Re:Cutting the cord
by LittleSpider on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:23PM
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It's been a slow burn with landlines, just like with cable. There was a bit of a growth in landlines in the late 90s and early 2000s when internet usage with dial-up modems was a growing product, and before cable modems and wireless data really took off. after that, though, second-line usage rolled off appreciably as some people converted to cell-phone only, and cord-cutters (phone version) started to eat away at the cable companies' and phone companies' client base.
There are still a lot of landlines in homes and businesses to this day, though. Ma Bell's distant grandchildren still have their core products throwing off a lot of cash (at least for now), but they've definitely noticed the roll-off in their subscriber base.
And with that cable-cord-cutter attrition rate of 1%, that seems to me to be about the death rate of the human population in countries with cable tv (if we live to be an average of ninety, then 1.1% are dying each year), perhaps cord-cutting is somewhat of a generational thing?