UK - I have not had this happen to me yet. But guess its coming to my phone soon! 😖😖😖
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Believe it or not, for us, POTS ("Plain Old Telephone Service" is on its way out.
The great 2025 switchoff
As I said, there are huge cost savings if the network moves to VOIP instead. My internet access comes into my apartment using the same copper wires which have been here for many years - but I have no "landline phone."
The USA has always been different though in terms of how phone service works. Maybe because a larger proportion of people live in very rural areas. We don't get so much of that here because although our population is only about 20% of the USA population we are crammed into an area the size of Arizona. So maybe you're right and you get to keep yours.
Most Europeans have no real conception of just how big the US is and how far apart things are. For example, just my state of NC is half as big as the whole UK.
POTS covers practically the entire US. The internet doesn't. Removing POTS would totally isolate millions of people.