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LANDLINES - WE NEED THEM

Writer: Mark PlayneMark Playne

The humble landline telephone represents an increasingly vital refuge in our electromagnetic-laden world, particularly for those suffering from electrosensitivity. While mobile networks blanket Britain with ever-increasing electromagnetic radiation, landlines operate through simple electrical current in copper wires, producing minimal electromagnetic fields. For the growing population experiencing symptoms like headaches, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties after prolonged mobile phone use, landlines provide an essential communication alternative that doesn't trigger these debilitating effects.


Our modern environment has become saturated with overlapping electromagnetic frequencies from Wi-Fi, mobile networks, smart meters, and household appliances, creating an invisible 'smog' that some bodies simply cannot process effectively. Landlines offer a clean communication channel that doesn't contribute to this electromagnetic burden. For vulnerable populations – including children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems – maintaining landline infrastructure represents a crucial public health consideration that telecommunications companies and regulators must prioritise.


Perhaps most concerning is that many Britons experiencing chronic symptoms – from sleep disturbances to heart palpitations – remain unaware that electromagnetic hypersensitivity may be at the root of their suffering. As 5G networks expand and wireless devices proliferate, preserving landline infrastructure acts as both a lifeline for those already aware of their sensitivity and an essential option for the potentially millions yet to connect their symptoms to electromagnetic exposure. In an age obsessed with wireless innovation, we must ensure this simple, reliable technology remains available for those whose health depends on it.



SAVE OUR LANDLINES>>

SAVE OUR LANDLINES: Help us maintain full access to our well-established and vital copper landline network: Our analogue copper landline telephone network provides a reliable, high quality, secure and affordable voice service.


British Telecom companies are planning to pull the plug on essential landlines in favour of less-regulated, less reliable, less secure and more expensive wireless phones or Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP). They lack a sensible plan to keep people safely and reliably connected. British Telecom (BT), for example, have already been moving customers from landlines to internet connections, although they have temporarily postponed the roll-out after escalating complaints from concerned customers.





BT to end landline phones sparking fears for millions of vulnerable and elderly people:


“Around six percent of households – roughly 1.5million homes – do not have access to the Internet, according to watchdog Ofcom.” https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bt-end-landline-phones-sparking-25544885



Dismantling landlines will cost us safety, health as well as jobs and cut off critical emergency communications access to millions of people. We must defend our landlines from unscrupulous telecom companies and governments. If you want to keep your choice to have a reliable landline in your home or business, you need to act now. Please sign this Call to Action, contact your MP and spread the word across the UK.


Re-investing in our copper telephone landline network will be beneficial for Public Health, Security and Ecology. Copper landlines serve as a necessary, reliable and safe alternative to power-grid dependent, energy-hungry communications systems like VOIP. Landlines are also far more benign than mobile phone services as wireless connections are less secure and harmful to our health.


There is no longer any question whether wireless Radio Frequency (RF) radiation – used in mobile phone communications and wireless devices – is harmful to humans and wildlife. Commonly identified health consequences of short and longer term exposures include insomnia, headaches and fatigue, as well as other serious and life changing ailments.Tens of thousands of scientific papers (linked herein) have cited connections to the role of EMFs in a multitude of adverse health effects, including depression, infertility, cancer, damage to DNA/gene expression, oxidative stress, pregnancy complications, Melatonin production, neurological disorders, immune dysfunction, Alzheimers/dementia, leukaemia, and many, many more.                        



STUDIES


Over 1,600 scientific papers can be found here: https://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/studies.asp



Another 4000+ studies can be found here: http://www.bioinitiative.org



And another 23,840 studies are linked here: www.EMF-portal.org



Finally, here is a recent compilation of the vast number of known biological effects from wireless radiation: https://www.5gfrequencyfreefairbanks.org




COMMENTS


  • Misha Carder United Kingdom

 Nov 12, 2024

Land lines are essential for the elderly and the increasing number of people affected by electro magnetic pollution


  • Tina Pascal United Kingdom

 Nov 12, 2024

It is so important to keep this to help with elderly alarm call systems


Joanne Mincher United Kingdom

 Nov 12, 2024

We are all being exposed in different degrees to digital damage. It is integral that we keep our landlines, before we lose everything to this, what is becoming a very robotic world.


  • Lucy Richards United Kingdom

 Nov 08, 2024

Many things in the past have been deemed ‘safe’ and after ‘rollout’ to the planet, the public and all creatures, with horrific consequence have had to be changed back or taken away urgently, due to adverse effects to health, or our planet, we only have one to look after, and all the life on it, historically this has happened more than once in the past, should we not learn from this, instead of disregarding warning signs from the beginning, and literally running with fire to burn all life from our people and lands? sadly, but with hope, we have enough intelligence, and world communication should we not take our roll as custodians seriously and look after our planet, and all life on it, before we destroy it irreparably more than the powers that be have done already? At the end of the day we have drilled our holes, made our poisons, blown up our planet strewn our plastic, rubbish, polluted waters, committed genocide on people animals plants insects the whole kaboodle, how long do we really think our mother planet will put up with this, its just another nail in our own coffins, and big corporate companies with their shareholders, there will be know one left to mourn you as all the children will be dead and money wont keep you warm or fed, our planet is angry and she will win with or without us. Think about the future we are creating for our young. Those ‘in power’ help us stop killing us. Again with sadness and hope Lucy



  • Cathleen MIfsud

Oct 19, 2024

I do not own a mobile phone for health reasons and to set an example to my children.


  • Karen Wharton

 Oct 18, 2024

I am upset and perturbed at the insidious coercion pushing everyone towards mobile wireless.


  • David ward

 Oct 16, 2024

Not all of the elderly understand digital technologies also not everyone has broadband and without it you cannot have a digital landline also a copper line does not fail in a power cut a digital one does


  • Sandra

 Oct 14, 2024 

We need to keep an alternative to digital


  • Jennifer Sillwood

 Oct 12, 2024 

Older people cannot cope with so many changes that mainly will affect  them


  • Anonymous

 Oct 12, 2024 

My mobile does not always have a good signal.so l need my landline. Also hearing problems.


  • Jayne Ellison

 Oct 12, 2024 

I don't want it on WiFi, If that goes down you can't call emergency


  • Anonymous

 Oct 12, 2024 

These should be retained.


  • Shari Champagne Champagne United States

 Oct 12, 2024 

Save our land lines


  • Katherine Moore

 Oct 12, 2024

 YES! We need our landlines. I need to be able to receive emergency calls on the home line

  • Karin Schafer

 Oct 12, 2024 

I need my landline, I am old age pensioner and don't do modern technology!


  • Russell Ruckman

 Oct 10, 2024 

I'm so pleased I'm not the only one


  • Nicola

 Oct 04, 2024 

My older Family use Landlines all the Time plus I use Landline too ...


  • Marie Berry

 Sep 30, 2024 

We need landlines. If your mobile has no reception or fails to work which happens often then we're lost!


  • Glynis Walker

 Sep 30, 2024 

We must avoid all 4G and above signals and retain our Landlines for the sake of our health


  • EileenG

 Sep 27, 2024 

Secure.


  • Lana Reynolds

 Sep 27, 2024 

5G is lethal to all living things. Analogue copper landlines are not only safe they save life's in areas where people cannot get a wifi connection. A.T.&T. was told by the CPUC that they have to continue providing landlines, legally. They are not doing this. A class action suit is in order and should be starting asap.


  • Steven Gegg

 Sep 23, 2024 

NO to WiFi landline phones, no long term studies been done on the harms of 4G or 5G exposure!


  • Mark Roe

 Sep 16, 2024 

I support the continuance of the reliable copper line for telephone calls, especially when dialling out for emergency services.



  • Trevor Williams

 Sep 15, 2024 

Lost satellite signal, so missed video call from hospital. They didn't think to use my landline!


  • Brian Thomas United Kingdom, Plymouth

 Sep 04, 2024 

I object to the glib BT comment that copper cabling is to “disappear like the dodo.” Also to their statements (1) “you won't be able to make calls, including calls to 999” during a power cut on the replacement system and (2) “some healthcare alarms, medical pendants and security systems won't work.” There is a further health risk from dangerous irradiation throughout the house, conditions known to trigger cancer. Also, installation could damage the property, quote: “We’ll drill a small hole through the wall to connect the Fibre cable; we may also need to drill a couple of extra holes to safely attach our ladder.” Final point, when engineers arrived to install the system, which I rejected, one of them demanded aggressively “You’ve got to have it!” When asked “Who says?” he replied “WE say!” Sales with menaces. I have never encountered such ill treatment from BT, who I have been with since I got my own phone.


  • Joe Veragio

 Aug 25, 2024 

People need power to report power cuts.


  • Eddie Shar United Kingdom, Edinburgh

 Aug 25, 2024

You can't dial by tapping fibres together.


  • sharon isgrove

 Aug 24, 2024 

Landlines are of vital importance to the elderly.


  • Anonymous

 Aug 24, 2024 

Please protect landlines as many vulnerable people and even those with a personal preference rely on them, as well as some small businesses so they are an important part of infrastructure to keep.


  • Maddy United Kingdom, Pontypool

 Aug 23, 2024

Save my landline!



  • CANDICE DAVIDSON

 Aug 23, 2024 

I believe it's important for us to keep landlines especially for the elderly people.


  • Pete Coyle

 Aug 23, 2024 

Analogue lines, not digital


  • Davidina Haigh

 Aug 23, 2024 

We must keep our Landlines.


  • Leo Thomas Mcbryan

 Aug 23, 2024 

We need for emergencies


  • Susan Barrinfton-Smith

 Aug 23, 2024

I have ME and am very sensitive to E-smog also wireless is unreliable


  • David Backhouse

 Aug 22, 2024 

If the Internet goes down, does the VOIP still work? I suspect not.Quite often I have to ring my elderly Mum on her landline because the mobile signals are dreadful.


  • Anonymous

 Aug 22, 2024

It’s a good system, keep it!!!


  • Sara Gedye

 Aug 22, 2024 

We have a land line , and always have had one . Not everyone has a mobile . We must keep them, especially for the old and vulnerable


  • Donna Liley

 Aug 22, 2024 

This is essential infrastructure for security & reliability


  • Eva Bentham United Kingdom, Loughborough

 Aug 22, 2024 

There is no justifiable reason to dismantle landlines in favour of VOIP.


  • janet ellis United Kingdom, Oswestry

 Aug 22, 2024 

I am going to get rid of my computer, I do not have a smart phone and never ever intend to have one. I will only have my land line.

  • Esther Vleeskruijer-Noordman France, Paris

 Aug 21, 2024


  • Marije Freeve Netherlands, Coevorden

 Aug 21, 2024 

Ga terug naar de draad!


  • Pottie Kristien Belgium, Etalle

 Aug 21, 2024 

Too many people get sick from wireless communication, electrohypersensibility, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, infertility etc. Where can we live on earth if everything is under wireless tension. The nature also suffers terribly from it!


  • Marijke Dirix Belgium, Liège

 Aug 20, 2024 

Erg veel last van straling


  • Tonny Netherlands, Amsterdam

 Aug 20, 2024 

De gewone telefoon moet blijven!


  • Valerie Price-West United Kingdom, Llanelli

 Aug 17, 2024 

Why get rid of a system that works. As usual you are putting all your eggs in in one basket.


  • Pia Day United Kingdom, Portsmouth

 Aug 16, 2024

Save our landline - we need to stay connected safely!


  • Maria McCartney United Kingdom, Bournemouth

 Aug 16, 2024 

For the sake of freedom and security and ease of use, I want to keep using my landline


  • Yao Shen United States, Asheville

 Aug 11, 2024

Investing in secure, environmentally sound infrastructure that does not cause harm to human health offers a significantly greater return on investment than other forms of technology that rely on wireless communication or VOIP. It makes absolutely no sense to abandon landlines. Why cut off what's working when the alternatives have already been demonstrated to be unreliable, cost ineffective and extremely damaging to human health and the environment? There is already an option that checks all the boxes upon which the survival of 1.5 million households depend. It defies common sense to favor wireless phones or VOIP communication sources over landlines. It is imperative that you cease any plans to end the access to landline phones.


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Lewisham

 Aug 06, 2024 

I do not have a mobile. There are expensive to use and give harmful radiations. I love my landline.


  • Mella United Kingdom, Brighton

 Aug 06, 2024 

Imagine being too ill to get out of bed to turn on the router so you can use your fibre phone. A vulnerable person would need their phone by their bed in case of emergency and if someone needs to phone them during the night in an emergency. That's just a couple of points.. It also takes time for the phone to be activated by the router.


  • Virginia Hall United Kingdom, Colchester

 Aug 04, 2024 

I do not have a mobile phone and I solely rely on my landline


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Eastbourne

 Aug 03, 2024 

I need my landline, it is a lifeline all my elderly relatives only use landlines, we should have the choice to keep the services that work for us, what happens when the internet goes down, we keep being told power cuts will happen without a landline all the elderly would be very vulnerable


  • Bisson Guernsey, St Peter Port

 Aug 03, 2024

Save our landlines


  • Louise Jackson United Kingdom, Greenwich

 Aug 01, 2024 

This is a necessity for many elderly and those without reliable internet. It is simply too soon to remove this from public service.


  • Caroline Hotston United Kingdom, Hackney

 Aug 01, 2024 

The landlines is a saving grace for people that don't have mobiles they need them for emergencies


  • f mckenzioe United Kingdom, Taunton

 Aug 01, 2024 

Landlines are vital - companies should re invest their huge profitcs maintaining these


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Yeovil

 Jul 31, 2024 

My Dad is 100 and needs his landline so that he can press his button for his Lifeline to pick him up when he has fallen.


  • Nicola United Kingdom, Exeter

 Jul 29, 2024 

Landlines are vital for the elderly


  • Penny United Kingdom, Brent

 Jul 29, 2024 

Landlines are needed by lots of people especially those with special needs


  • Jeannie Marsh United Kingdom, Sherborne

 Jul 28, 2024 

I've had letter re this from BT, changing to digital voice, no thank you.


  • Ruth Leslie United Kingdom, Lambeth

 Jul 28, 2024 

As an Oap with poor mobile signal it is vital that the option of a landlines is maintained for emergency purposes as well as general contact


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Nottingham

 Jul 27, 2024 

Landlines are essential, particularly for the older generation and in fact any age group - the consumer should have the choice of being able to keep their landline - what would happen in the event of power cuts with no ability to contact emergency services or family ? - our internet regularly drops out leaving us with no means of communication at times. We have not been consulted either which is our fundamental right.


  • Marie Pearce United Kingdom, Plymouth

 Jul 27, 2024 

We 100% need to keep our landlines, for safety and reliability. I for one, live in an area where the mobile signal constantly 'drops out'.


  • Susan Hoddinott United Kingdom, St Austell

 Jul 27, 2024 

My lifeline



  • David Wilson United Kingdom, London

 Jul 27, 2024

Keep the landlines open!


  • Malcolm United Kingdom, York

 Jul 26, 2024

I don't have a mobile phone, and rely on my landline.


  • Carl Doyle United Kingdom, Barnsley

 Jul 26, 2024

I wish to keep my land line as it’s my life line for work and to contact my family.


  • Shalini Varma United Kingdom, Camden

 Jul 26, 2024 

Lots depend on their landline and don't have internet! Landlines must still be allowed to work


  • Jennie McRae United Kingdom, Lambeth

 Jul 26, 2024

I really want to keep my landline because if there is a bad power outage I would have no way of contacting emergency services I have experienced complete outage of a mobile phone during power outages I am disabled & I will feel really vulnerable we need our original phone lines


  • Francesca Nelson United Kingdom, Rayleigh

 Jul 26, 2024 

I live in a bad signal area and rely on my landline, and secondly I do not consent to having to rely on - or being controlled/monitored by a mobile.


  • Robert Delnon United Kingdom, Fulham

 Jul 26, 2024 

Copper lines - no need to rely on RF transmission and when all power is down, is battery-backed independent of the mains. Simple and effective emergency back-up system


  • Charlotte Moncrieff United Kingdom, Bristol

 Jul 26, 2024 

I have to keep a landline for safety


  • Cheryl McGibbon United Kingdom, Southampton

 Jul 26, 2024 

As someone with ongoing health issues I need my landline.


  • Michelle Kulacz United Kingdom, Chelmsford

 Jul 26, 2024 

Landlines are essential and need to be retained

  • Linda fox United Kingdom, Grantham

 Jul 25, 2024 

I will be in danger if I have no landline because I don’t use a mobile phone, I need to be able to phone emergency services when needed.


  • Maz Harper United Kingdom, Milton Keynes

 Jul 25, 2024 

Many elderly people are too old to understand and cope with modern day technology, and rely on their telephone land lines to keep in touch with family and friends.


  • Mike Shreeve United Kingdom, Ealing

 Jul 25, 2024 

The other systems are ridiculously unreliable.


  • Lauren United Kingdom, Tranent

 Jul 25, 2024

Our elderly need a house phone.


  • Harvey Wade United Kingdom, London

 Jul 25, 2024 

Not a good road to head down - 5G is an unknown


  • Stephanie Bagley United Kingdom, Wednesbury

 Jul 25, 2024 

Going totally digital is an insane plan. We need to keep alternative means of communication, it is more reliable, has proven recently with system outages. Also EMF frequencies are causing environmental biological harm, high frequency 5g should be banned.


  • Andrew Storey United Kingdom, Pelton

 Jul 25, 2024 

OUR ANALOGUE COPPER LANDLINE TELEPHONE NETWORK PROVIDES A RELIABLE, HIGH QUALITY, SECURE AND AFFORDABLE VOICE SERVICE.


  • Matthew Cook United Kingdom, Barrow in Furness

 Jul 24, 2024 

We need to keep land lines.


  • Bunty Lear United Kingdom, Chesham

 Jul 24, 2024 

Please may we all keep our vital landlines


Bruce United Kingdom

 Jul 24, 2024 

It’s vital we keep using landlines.

  • Lynne United Kingdom, Christchurch

 Jul 24, 2024 

Landlines are so much better than mobiles especially for the elderly. We are swimming in too much EMF soup! Stop this madness please xx


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Cardiff

 Jul 24, 2024 

Keep landlines as many rely on them and I think it's important to keep things that have worked well for many years. We must say no to everything going digital.


  • Chris Netherlands, Naaldwijk

 Jul 24, 2024

If the Russians can interfere with the satellites that are controlling drones in Ukraine, very successfully, the same can be said of this system.


  • Anne Robson United Kingdom, Bristol

 Jul 24, 2024 

Landlines are essential as a reliable, high quality and secure voice service; Internet services are the opposite. I'M VOTING TO KEEP OUR LANDLINE SERVICE


  • Krystyna Zaremba United Kingdom, London

 Jul 24, 2024 

People living in out of the way areas, people who have to be on call because of heart conditions etc. all require landlines. This is super important and cannot be ignored.


  • Jadwiga Łopata Poland, Krakow

 Jul 24, 2024

Jadwiga Lopata: As Director of the ecological educational farm EKOCENTRUM ICPPC, Stryszów, Poland www.eko-cel.and winner of the Ecological Noble Prize


  • Victoria LoPiccolo United States, Wildwood

 Jul 20, 2024

Do the right thing and continue landlines


  • Rudi Wendt United States, Racine

 Jul 18, 2024 

I have and like my landline. Can't depend on a cell phone.


  • Mark Levy United Kingdom, Bradford

 Jul 17, 2024 

This is a reliable vital form of communication for those sensitive to wireless devices , and for those care about life on Earth in general.




  • Diane Gregory Australia, Sydney

 Jul 16, 2024

Some people need landlines, especially the elderly


  • Emily Mai United Kingdom, Birmingham

 Jul 14, 2024 

I rely on a landline. I have ES and can't tolerate WiFi. (They wanted to install digital Voice) I've just had to say (which isn't true) I have a heart care pendant to BT to get the copper wire back in my new rented home. If you say this you are entitled to a copper wire because of the effects of WiFi it took 2 hrs to get it in the phone but BT actually suggested it and I certainly raised awareness in ES issues to a few people. It seems they assume everyone wants more Wifi and EMF but more n more people are becoming Electro sensitive now. Thanks


  • Rachel Robinson United Kingdom, Chelmsford

 Jun 30, 2024 

More about the fact not everyone wants the Internet and the landline is a proven more reliable method of communication for everyone. Forcing everyone to move over is putting vulnerable people in danger


  • Diane Newman United Kingdom, Cardigan

 Jun 27, 2024 

I have one and want to keep it!


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Bargoed

 Jun 27, 2024 

Please don’t take my landline it’s my only source of communication as im emf sensitive


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Barnstaple

 Jun 14, 2024 

Shouldn't we all have a choice?


  • mary ebbs United Kingdom, Hexham

 Jun 06, 2024

I have already phoned BT to express my concerns re-outages


  • Vanessa Halhead United Kingdom, Dingwall

 Jun 05, 2024 

I have no mobile signal at home. Without landline I'm dependent on the Internet for communication, which is also unreliable. Landlines are essential!!!



  • Elaine Jack United Kingdom, Haddington

 Jun 04, 2024 

It's my choice to have a landline and it should not be up to anyone but me to decide on getting rid of it.

  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Huddersfield

 May 30, 2024 

Not everyone has a smart phone


  • Linda Collett United Kingdom, Droitwich

 May 09, 2024 

Many people mainly older ones rely on landline phones to keep in contact with their families and make appointments etc. Many do not have the internet and do not need it for their day to day lives or smart phones that they do not understand or do not want


  • GOLDMANN-SALVATORE United Kingdom, Salford

 May 09, 2024 

Wish you well!


  • Debra Seddon Portugal, Lisbon

 May 09, 2024

Needed especially for the ill and elderly when Wi-Fi can’t be relied on


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Chester

 May 09, 2024 

We need choices, taking away landlines is yet another threat to democracy and privacy and safety


  • Nicolas Haynes United Kingdom, Chingford

 May 02, 2024 

I am EMR sensitive to all wifi, 2G-5G frequencies. I depend on a copper landline for an analogue phone that does not fry me.


  • Rosie Chandler United Kingdom, Blyth

 Apr 21, 2024 

I absolutely concur with the need to retain our copper wire landlines for many reasons


  • Moyra McGhie United Kingdom, Oxford

 Apr 18, 2024 

Such a massive and indiscriminate digital roll-out is yet another scandal which not only threatens to undermine the overriding responsibility of the British Government to "protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens", but also our democratic 'right to choose'. As some of us know, BT used to be a 'Public Utility' under the overall stewardship of the British Government until it was partially privatised in 1984. So far so good, until 1997, when the Blair Government recklessly sold Britain's protective 'Golden Shareholding' veto, and hurled British Telecom into the avaricious jaws of the World's global digital telecom speculators.I believe this scandalous destruction of our telephone landlines also poses a serious threat to the Nation's "Right to Liberty and Security" as enshrined in the 1988 Human Rights Act, and compromises the 2018 Data Protection Act which promises "appropriate security, including protection against unlawful or unauthorised processing access, loss, destruction or damage".The Government must intervene by referring such a serious threat to our national security to the 2021 National Security and Investment Act (NSI) in order to implement a comprehensive forensic examination into yet another unfettered vice like grip of the digital enslavement which is funnelling us all into an unsafe and uncertain future.Government has to preserve our Terrestrial safeguards as, one day, a lump of galactic debris will inevitably crash into a crucial satellite, or even worse, an enemy Cyber attack could plunge us, and future generations, into a catastrophic 'Dark Age'......



  • Amanda Newman

 Apr 17, 2024

We need a secure landline back up for safety, emergencies and vulnerable people.


  • Emma portch United Kingdom, Enfield

 Apr 16, 2024

Save old landline please


  • Jacob Qualls United States, Pensacola

 Apr 12, 2024

Save landline phones


  • Diana McGlue New Zealand, Auckland

 Apr 11, 2024

My email address is what it is, I cannot change it!


  • Matthew Barton United Kingdom, Bristol

 Apr 10, 2024

Let's keep fighting!


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne

 Apr 10, 2024

Not wanted, not needed.


  • ANDRIUS Lithuania, Šiauliai

 Apr 07, 2024

NO 5G IN LITHUANIA


  • Leisa Forge Australia, Sydney

 Apr 05, 2024

I do not consent to 5G EMF HARRP DEW UN Geoengineering Weather Manipulation.


  • Ashlee Padayachey United Kingdom, Birmingham

 Apr 04, 2024

This is our life line if anything goes wrong.Why would you disable this line of life.

  • Ourabi adra Tunisia, Bizerte

 Apr 02, 2024


  • Gloria Shen United States, Asheville

 Mar 31, 2024 

Why would anyone favor a form of communication that is less reliable, less secure, more expensive AND extremely harmful to human and animal health? The plan to scrap copper landlines is folly. Some of the best inventions in history are tried and true and do not include wireless devices or VOIP. Let's not make a mistake here.


  • Paul stone United Kingdom, Dagenham

 Mar 27, 2024 

The VoIP digital voice service will not work during power cuts and a battery back up only last just over an hour not all people can use a mobile and the signal is bad in many areas alarm systems for the elderly will not work this has been rushed badly thought out the only reason BT and open reach do not want yo maintain the copper lines WHY profit they are not satisfied with 100s of millions a year for share holders they want more and if I'm and government let them do it not correct and very dangerous for peoples lives do they care No


  • Anonymous Netherlands, Naaldwijk

 Mar 22, 2024 

Without a copper landline, with star-wiring for handsets throughout the house, I will be without access to emergency services and my support people. This so-called upgrade is a violation of the Equalities Act 2010 as it discriminates against me because of the EHS disability.


  • Randy Cofer United States, Sacramento

 Mar 16, 2024 

I have a landline, have all my life, 72 years.Please let me decide what’s in my house. Please don't take it away, just because you can. 209-928-1492Thank you, signed Randy Cofer


  • Adrian Canada, Shawnigan Lake

 Mar 13, 2024 

Thanks for fact sharing


  • Valeen Jones United Kingdom, Hebburn

 Mar 11, 2024 

It is vital that traditional landlines are preserved as digital systems are unreliable and sometimes difficult to use.


  • Susan Amelia Ashworth United Kingdom, Gloucester

 Mar 11, 2024 

Save our landlines please


  • James Marsh United Kingdom, Blackpool

 Mar 05, 2024 

We need our landlines as we live in remote area with poor mobile signal


  • Anonymous United States, Philadelphia

 Mar 02, 2024 

If you truly care about people's safety ( including the elderly without cells), you would KEEP the landlines! It's common sense . Doing away with them will pose bigger problems for sure.


  • Anonymous Netherlands, Stadskanaal

 Feb 28, 2024 

Save the landlines!


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Weymouth

 Feb 28, 2024 

Power to the people


  • Inger Johanne Oeydegard Sweden, Ljungby

 Feb 23, 2024 

PLEASE ,SAVE the LANDLINES !


  • Bertrand Charest Canada, Montreal

 Feb 20, 2024 

Stop attacking us with radiation !!!


  • Pandora Smith United Kingdom, Middlesbrough

 Feb 20, 2024 

Anyone can see the hazards of not keeping landlines. They are far more reliable than the internet.


  • Aleks United Kingdom, Hackney

 Feb 18, 2024 

Agree


  • Linda Enriquez Mexico, Cancún

 Feb 18, 2024 

Please keep our landlines


  • Anonymous United States, Oakland

 Feb 17, 2024 

If the grid goes down we will need landlines. Please don't remove them.


  • Katrina United States, Miami

 Feb 15, 2024 

Please I need help. I have done complaint after complaint to FPL...THEY ARE FRYING ME AND MY DOGS. 


  • Anonymous United Kingdom

 Feb 15, 2024 

Copper lines must stay!


  • Pip Reynolds United States

 Feb 15, 2024

We really need to stop them from pulling out or landlines, all of banks, schools, emergency systems and files are on computers. We can't let them Hamstring us!



  • Jill Chalmers Canada, Chatham

 Feb 10, 2024 

Our landlines are a necessity!! Most seniors have no other option. Children should not be on cell phones





  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Andover

 Feb 09, 2024 

I know people who have NO internet or mobile phone, I would worry how they would be able to get help if needed if they had no landline. I live in a village, I have a mobile, little coverage & my Internet drops out regularly, we are not in a position to be without landline connection.


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, Winchester

 Feb 09, 2024 

Landlines still work in the event of a power cut and also if your home WiFi/broadband fails.


  • P Gregson Canada

 Feb 06, 2024 

I live in a cell-free area. We need our landlines!


  • Glenda Pearl Halles United Kingdom, Brighton

 Feb 06, 2024

Concerned.


  • Rosanne Walters Bolivia, Cochabamba

 Feb 06, 2024 

Copper landlines are essential for SAFETY and CHOICE. Re-invest in the copper landline network and stop investing in health- and life-threatening wireless technologies. The future of the UK depends on it.


  • Patricia Ormsby Japan

 Feb 05, 2024 

Wireless telecommunications is energy intensive, easily disrupted and intercepted, and lacks the resilience of hard-wired infrastructure. It forces people with sensitivities to tolerate more pain, harms the health of millions of other people and disrupts ecosystems. It is popular and convenient, but in the long term, a real loser.


  • Mel United States, Irvine

 Feb 04, 2024 

KEEP OUR LANDLINES!


  • Mike Hughes United Kingdom, Bristol

 Feb 03, 2024 

There are still plenty of seniors like me who don't use a mobile phone. The internet was off for several hours on two successive days last week which meant I was totally incommunicado.

Landlines must continue and be properly maintained.


  • Anonymous United Kingdom, New Milton

 Feb 02, 2024 

This has not been thought out properly


  • Anonymous United Kingdom

 Feb 02, 2024 

Please don't take this away - it saves my life. I live in a village where the mobile signal is often down. My landline is crucial for my safety.


Sally shaw United Kingdom, Dewsbury

 Jan 19, 2024 

My father age 88 years needs his land line as he cannot use a mobile –it’s essential


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