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Broadband 'will be primary use of landlines'
Wednesday 5th December 2007, by Daniel King
Britons will increasingly use their landlines just for broadband services in the future, an expert has said.
According to Rupert Wood of research firm Analysys, the growing uptake of mobile phone services means that landlines are likely to become largely redundant for making voice calls.
He said that broadband connections will become the main use of landlines as there is no mobile alternative to the high-speed internet at the moment.
"You've got a lot of households who are readopting fixed lines just for the DSL connection," Mr Wood explained.
"They may do some fixed voice on it - voice over internet protocol in particular - but they might not; they might never use it for voice calling at all. But [the landline is] still attractive in itself."
The comments come shortly after European statistics office Eurostat released figures suggesting that 13 per cent of British households use mobile phones but have no fixed-line telephony facilities in place.
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