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You Might Still Need a Home Landline Phone in 2024. Here's Why
When major outages hit our mobile carriers, networks can go down for hours, leaving people stranded without one of their most critical lines of access to the world. Earlier this year, an AT&T outage took down services for more than 12 hours in many of …