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The FCC's apparently preparing for landline extinction.

Please read Jacob Kastrenakes' July 10, 2015 blog, "Getting rid of copper lines has consequences, and the FCC wants you to know them." tinyurl/peg63bm

The FCC will vote about emergency backup power provisions for cell phones in August. Did the FCC ever call for Comments?

Dr. Gary Olhoeft pointed out to me that big users of landlines include doctors, insurance companies, title companies and others who use faxes to protect their clients. What will these folks do when landlines are eliminated?

Anyone have ideas for what we might do to keep landlines?

--Katie Singer, www.electronicsilentspring.com


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Katie Singer writes about nature and technology in Letters to Greta. She spoke about the Internet's footprint in 2018, at the United Nations' Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation, and, in 2019, on a panel with the climatologist Dr. (more...)
 

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