Landline
noun
A phone that uses a metal wire or optical fibre for transmission, which is typically used in homes or businesses.
I called her on her landline because her mobile phone was switched off.
Often appears as...
- use a landline
- landline phone
noun
A phone that uses a metal wire or optical fibre for transmission, which is typically used in homes or businesses.
I called her on her landline because her mobile phone was switched off.
Often appears as...
- use a landline
- landline phone
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Pro Tip 1/3Technological Shift
Landlines are less common now due to mobile phones, but still used in many places for reliability.
Despite the power outage, our landline was still working.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Use
People often keep a landline as a backup for emergencies or when cell service is poor.
In case of an emergency, dial 911 on the landline.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Formality
Businesses frequently use landlines, as they're considered more professional than mobile numbers.
You can reach our customer service at our landline during office hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Shift
Landlines are less common now due to mobile phones, but still used in many places for reliability.
Despite the power outage, our landline was still working.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Use
People often keep a landline as a backup for emergencies or when cell service is poor.
In case of an emergency, dial 911 on the landline.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Formality
Businesses frequently use landlines, as they're considered more professional than mobile numbers.
You can reach our customer service at our landline during office hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Shift
Landlines are less common now due to mobile phones, but still used in many places for reliability.
Despite the power outage, our landline was still working.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Use
People often keep a landline as a backup for emergencies or when cell service is poor.
In case of an emergency, dial 911 on the landline.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Formality
Businesses frequently use landlines, as they're considered more professional than mobile numbers.
You can reach our customer service at our landline during office hours.
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Welcome to the...
thousands of miles from the high voltage cable over the place it's like what happened with landline phones versus cellular phones in love developed countries they just didn't do the landline phones they just we're straight cellulose we actually did the calculations say like what would it take to transition the whole world to its sustainable
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Alex Steffen: The route...
That you're much better off, almost universally, looking for a low-cost or locally applicable version of the newest technology. One place we're all familiar with seeing this is with cell phones. Right? All throughout the developing world, people are going directly to cell phones, skipping the whole landline stage.
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Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful...
which means, you don't need to go to the landline telephone before you get to the mobile phones. Same way we don't need to go to fossil fuels to the one billion people who don't have access to energy before we get to the clean energy. And fifth and last, we need to share responsibility between governments,
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Aparna Rao: High-tech...
And as I grew up, it became worse and worse, And I started to think of it as a form of control. But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected figure in the Indian family. And the situation that irked me and mystified me the most was his use of a landline telephone.
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The case for optimism on...
even as the quality went up. And low-income countries, places that did not have a landline grid -- they leap-frogged to the new technology. The big expansion has been in the developing counties. So what about the electricity grids in the developing world?
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Charles Leadbeater: The...
where the uncertainty is highest. And when you get a radical innovation, it's often very uncertain how it can be applied. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty. The very first landline telephones,
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Prediction from 2013:...
and all over the world traditional voter contact is going to become much much harder I am 34 I have never mailed anything I've never used a landline and I really i don't think i remember the last time I knocked on a door but that's
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Bono: Action for Africa
The average waiting time to get a landline in Ethiopia is actually about seven or eight years. But wireless technology wasn't dreamt up then. Anyway, I'm Irish, and as you can see, I know how important talking is.
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How to create meaningful...
and phone how could you stay connected with those those folks it's a beautiful question a couple of things one is if they have a phone line and that's a big if but if they have a phone line a landline ways
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Amazing: Watch an...
it's very very important that you know people understand that we're not there to take elephant and put them into a learn minefield the idea is to bring the landline field to the elephants so if we
Video examples
Welcome to the...
thousands of miles from the high voltage cable over the place it's like what happened with landline phones versus cellular phones in love developed countries they just didn't do the landline phones they just we're straight cellulose we actually did the calculations say like what would it take to transition the whole world to its sustainable
Video examples
Alex Steffen: The route...
That you're much better off, almost universally, looking for a low-cost or locally applicable version of the newest technology. One place we're all familiar with seeing this is with cell phones. Right? All throughout the developing world, people are going directly to cell phones, skipping the whole landline stage.
Video examples
Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful...
which means, you don't need to go to the landline telephone before you get to the mobile phones. Same way we don't need to go to fossil fuels to the one billion people who don't have access to energy before we get to the clean energy. And fifth and last, we need to share responsibility between governments,
Video examples
Aparna Rao: High-tech...
And as I grew up, it became worse and worse, And I started to think of it as a form of control. But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected figure in the Indian family. And the situation that irked me and mystified me the most was his use of a landline telephone.
Video examples
The case for optimism on...
even as the quality went up. And low-income countries, places that did not have a landline grid -- they leap-frogged to the new technology. The big expansion has been in the developing counties. So what about the electricity grids in the developing world?
Video examples
Charles Leadbeater: The...
where the uncertainty is highest. And when you get a radical innovation, it's often very uncertain how it can be applied. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty. The very first landline telephones,
Video examples
Prediction from 2013:...
and all over the world traditional voter contact is going to become much much harder I am 34 I have never mailed anything I've never used a landline and I really i don't think i remember the last time I knocked on a door but that's
Video examples
Bono: Action for Africa
The average waiting time to get a landline in Ethiopia is actually about seven or eight years. But wireless technology wasn't dreamt up then. Anyway, I'm Irish, and as you can see, I know how important talking is.
Video examples
How to create meaningful...
and phone how could you stay connected with those those folks it's a beautiful question a couple of things one is if they have a phone line and that's a big if but if they have a phone line a landline ways
Video examples
Amazing: Watch an...
it's very very important that you know people understand that we're not there to take elephant and put them into a learn minefield the idea is to bring the landline field to the elephants so if we
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Kristen Soltis Anderson
American Writer
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
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Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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John Sununu
American Politician
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
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Meghan Daum
American Author
Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.
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Juhi Chawla
Indian Actress
I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.
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Rainbow Rowell
American Author
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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Saswata Chatterjee
If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.
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Steve Hilton
British Businessman
For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.
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Reed Hastings
American Businessman
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
Quote examples
Kristen Soltis Anderson
American Writer
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
Quote examples
Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
Quote examples
John Sununu
American Politician
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
Quote examples
Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
Quote examples
Meghan Daum
American Author
Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.
Quote examples
Juhi Chawla
Indian Actress
I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.
Quote examples
Rainbow Rowell
American Author
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
Quote examples
Saswata Chatterjee
If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.
Quote examples
Steve Hilton
British Businessman
For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.
Quote examples
Reed Hastings
American Businessman
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
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