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Telecommunications were long largely undeveloped in the state, with landline telephone service limited mainly to the larger towns.
LTE has theoretical download speeds of 300 megabits a second, many times as fast as what most consumers experience with landline broadband.
American cable companies can offer wireless services bundled with landline, Internet and video services, the so-called quadruple play, and compete against others offering similar bundles.
Viewers voted by phone or via the red button, with landline and red button votes costing 35p each, but votes from mobile phones were likely to cost substantially more.
In a statement the regulator explained the logic behind the move: "The number of communications providers with landline numbers has increased significantly over recent years, leading to more competition and cheaper landline bills for millions of homes and businesses.
The merger is also indicative of the broader struggles facing phone companies that are dependent on revenue from customers with landline phones, said Craig Moffett, an analyst with Bernstein Research.
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The film is set in the Peanuts heyday of the 60s/70s, with landline-dialler telephones and no internet, and it retains the somnolent Muzaky jazz-piano soundtrack I remember from the TV shows.
With landlines down and limited cell service, some people turned to blogs and social media to help locate them.
JK, Tayport, Fife Last week the telecoms regulator Ofcom said that Plusnet was jointly the most complained-about firm (with TalkTalk) for problems with landlines.
Andy Arthur, the study's author and an analyst with Mediamark, said the number of households with landlines would probably continue to decrease.
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