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Mobile Phones Gradually Taking Over from Landlines

Mobile Phones Gradually Taking Over from Landlines At one time it would have been unthinkable to have a mobile as the main household phone, but now, it seems, 15 per cent of UK homes have dispensed with their landline altogether.

This may be surprising as we tend to associate mobile phones as primarily being for people who are out and about constantly and the “home phone” for exactly that – for people who have a solid home base.

Most of us have both landline and mobile phones but clearly some consider that to have both is a luxury - and that the landline can be dispensed with in favour of mobile phone.

The question is could we do without landline phones completely? What would happen if there were to be a national emergency and landlines were knocked out altogether? An article on the BBC website asks whether mobile technology is capable of dealing with the country’s Internet access requirements.

This week, an exercise, called “White Noise”, is being simulated by Whitehall for civil servants. It is disabling the “public switched telephone network” to test the response from government and the various communication agencies to a possible national emergency. It is hoped that the results gained, will improve the national communication network, but this does not include the possible loss of Internet access UK-wide were such an event to occur.

It all depends on the growing sophistication of the mobile Internet market as to whether or indeed when it will be able to take over the country’s Internet access requirements.

The figures for households relying solely on mobile phones rise from the UK's 15 per cent to 63 per cent in the Czech Republic, and to 61 per cent in Finland where Nokia the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer is based.


Industry News posted by Marilyn on 12 November 2009

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