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AT&T plans to eliminate its traditional landline phone service across nearly all U.S. states in its service area by 2029, according to an official announcement. The telecom company has said its ...
Currently, AT&T provides landline service in 21 states, excluding some in the northeast and northwest, according to USA Today. Retiring those landlines would affect all those states except California.
Telecommunications company AT&T plans to eliminate traditional landline phone service to nearly all of the U.S. in its service area over the next five years. In a statement made as part of a ...
AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.
The new service can be used with an existing landline phone that plugs into a jack, and it connects to AT&T's wireless network as an alternative. It costs $45 a month.
AT&T plans to boost its number of fiber locations to 45 million by the end of 2029 but says it isn't profitable enough to build fiber to the other parts of its old landline phone and DSL networks.
AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.