📞 What Retiring Copper Phone Lines Means for Older Adults (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

With your landline phone being phased out, here’s what to expect next.

By Edward C. Baig, AARP. Published December 08, 2025.

Landline telephone service based on older “legacy” technology has been on borrowed time for a while, and now it appears that timeline is shortening. It raises alarm bells for older adults who have relied on such phone networks for generations, for everything from daily calls to summoning 911 in case of an emergency.

Telecom titans are well underway transitioning from aging and expensive-to-maintain copper phone lines to more cost-efficient, internet-based digital alternatives, notably fiber to the home, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and cellular.

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