Phone industry bailout?

[Skud]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...a-bailout-too/

Lol...so even if these land lines are a service less and less people use, they suggest throwing money into keeping them alive? That'd be kind of like bailing out the VHS tape industry.

[Duke{CLR}]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...a-bailout-too/

Lol...so even if these land lines are a service less and less people use, they suggest throwing money into keeping them alive? That'd be kind of like bailing out the VHS tape industry.

Or the newspaper industry.

[Hammy]

The answer is no. Most of the companies in this article may have lost 10-12% in land lines, but they have huge conversion rates in Wi-Fi and mobility sales.

Despite this being a NY Times article, there is a reason they filed it as a blog