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# Home phone use collapses across American households
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/home-phone-use-collapses-across-american-households/
- Published: 2026-09-20T16:10:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T16:10:37.000Z
- Description: The landline is now statistically dead—a 140-year shift in how families handle emergencies, screen calls, and inhabit their homes. Older Americans and rural communities still rely on the infrastructure, but the consumer habit that once anchored domestic life has collapsed.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-consumer, consumer behavior, attention economy, platform dynamics

Source: [Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends](https://open.substack.com/pub/linksiwouldgchatyou/p/785-phoning-home)

The landline is now statistically dead—a 140-year shift in how families handle emergencies, screen calls, and inhabit their homes. Older Americans and rural communities still rely on the infrastructure, but the consumer habit that once anchored domestic life has collapsed. The practical consequence matters: landline-dependent services like alarm systems, medical alerts, and 911 in certain areas must retool while carriers divest from copper networks that no longer justify their capital.