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The company offers local and long-distance calling and has more than 6 million fixed lines.
The statistics show 1.045 billion fixed lines at the end of 2001, according to the United Nations agency.
The tipping point is 2014 when more people will be accessing the internet from mobiles than from fixed lines.
Telephone service (on fixed lines, at least), electricity, gas and water supplies all meet this definition.
In their 30-year life they installed 10m fixed lines and registered 1m mobile phones.
Some people are even "cutting the cord"—ditching fixed lines altogether in favour of mobile phones.
For fixed lines, on the other hand, use has risen from 11 to about 18 minutes.
The Internet and data transmission may prolong the life of fixed lines.
Raptopoulos said the new system would be used to leapfrog the building of infrastructure, in the same way mobile networks have overtaken fixed lines in poorly connected countries.
It is true that 70percentt of online users still have fixed lines in their homes provided by a telecommunications company.
They should instead ponder the fact that people still typically use their mobile phones for shorter conversations than those they hold over fixed lines.
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