{"id":4559,"date":"2015-04-07T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2015-03-26T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:39:49","slug":"linked-wired-phones-now-in-only-half-of-u-s-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/linked-wired-phones-now-in-only-half-of-u-s-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Wired phones now in only half of U.S. households&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/landline-death-watch-wired-phones-now-in-only-half-of-u-s-households\/\">via GeekWire:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A new analysis of survey data by statistics portal Statista notes that landlines are now operational in roughly only 5 out of 10 U.S. households. That\u2019s dramatically down from a decade ago, when 9 in 10 households had a working wired telephone network connection.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s that high. I have a landline and love it. You don\u2019t realize how far we have to go on wireless call-quality, stability and reliability until you spend an hour on a land-line every day then someone calls your mobile and its like 2 cans and a string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via GeekWire: A new analysis of survey data by statistics portal Statista notes that landlines are now operational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-04-08T16:50:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"485c5dd9-919b-4d89-bf46-2f090c994969","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-04-08T16:50:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASFxd2ZGbTYm_Ri8JDJlJaQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1bx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5918,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/linked-wired-thinks-https-can-help-fight-vs-ad-blocking\/","url_meta":{"origin":4559,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Wired thinks https can help fight vs ad blocking&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via DigiDay: Wired has a bigger ad blocking problem than the average publication, owing to its tech-savvy audience. 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