Industry

On the Cusp

TeleGeography has reports that I'd like to read, if I could buy them. (There's a difference between being willing to buy something and being able to buy it.) They include an article from The New York Times in their press mentions: "When the Cellphone is the Home Phone."

In what may be the start of an alarming trend for the nation's largest telephone companies, the total number of business and residential telephone lines declined last year for the first time since the Depression—to 192.3 million at year's end from 192.6 million a year earlier, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

Those lines are going wireless. This is a big problem for an industry that depends on a rise in population to increase the saturation point for a given region. The young ones aren't buying. And so we have saturation. What can we do?

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