Some 45 years after design work started on the cellular network and the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an Internet Protocol (IP) Technology ransitions Order amounting to a reluctant invitation for trials on the decommissioning of the legacy telephone network.
Big disconnect: Telcos abandon copper phone lines
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Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the rest of the world is gone, and the phone company refuses to restore it.