Broadband Future

Traditional phones may be nearing end of line: "Here's more evidence that we're talking about a trend of today. The three major traditional telecoms in Washington -- Qwest, Verizon and Sprint -- lost 6.8 percent of their residential primary lines from 2002 to 2004, according to Mark Sidran, chairman of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. That was while the number of households with telephone service was growing. And that's not counting the loss of secondary lines that people added for dial-up Internet access and subtracted when they moved to something faster."