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blitzkrieg
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30 Sep 2023, 7:47 pm

Mona Pereth wrote:
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blitzkrieg wrote:
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Landline numbers have recently been phased out in the area where I live.

Even as part of a cable Internet package?

These days, at least in many places here in the U.S.A., landline phone service is offered by cable Internet providers, rather than as a standalone service. Is that not the case where you live?


Yep.

Landlines are being phased out completely in the UK and this is set to be achieved by 2025.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58233766


Mona and Blitzkrieg, you are talking about the same thing. Both countries are going to VoIP phone service instead of POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service). The USA doesn't have a deadline to eliminate POTS though.

But VoIP is effectively a land line if provided by a cable TV or fiber optic Internet provider. Most land lines these days have been transferred from POTS to VoIP via cable. They are still "land lines" in the sense that the signal still goes through a cable, even though the protocol is different.


The difference is in the UK at least - with copper wiring. Copper wiring was/is the main technology for old-style landlines, whilst most newer internet services use fibre optic, in which case the traditional land line with copper wiring is being abandoned.



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06 Oct 2023, 4:48 pm

Gayspie wrote:
...and others dont?


Internet forums tend to focus on specialty interests, and organization by topic classifications are encouraged.

Internet forums give the feel of digital versions of bulletin boards.

Some people may find it harder to navigate social-media sites for specialized content than would be the case with older-TECH Internet forums.



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23 Oct 2023, 2:41 pm

JustFoundHere wrote:
Gayspie wrote:
...and others dont?


Internet forums tend to focus on specialty interests, and organization by topic classifications are encouraged.

Internet forums give the feel of digital versions of bulletin boards.

Some people may find it harder to navigate social-media sites for specialized content than would be the case with older-TECH Internet forums.


Internet forums need to experience a comeback!



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23 Oct 2023, 2:48 pm

Case in point: I am a member of both a SF & fantasy forum and a SF & fantasy Facebook group. The Facebook group has more activity on it, but you can forget trying to continue a thread after a couple of days. If you can even find it, it'll be so far down the feed that Facebook glitches out when you try to post a reply. On the forum, there are conversations that have been going on for years.


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