If you have to use the phone should use a land-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2006] Reference

Today, India has more cell phones than land-line phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2006] Reference

Consolidating land-line operators makes strategic sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Phones In Another Deal] Reference

I waved an OK at her and picked up the receiver of the land-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Edna's Lace] Reference

We'll see a continued very slow loss of land-line phones for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Buy a Quad From This Man?] Reference

Companies in the land-line industry have little choice but to get bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Gambles on Qwest Merger] Reference

Has the phone industry's long-shrinking land-line business hit that point?.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Verizon, Land Lines Are a Hang-Up] Reference

Or telephone service without accessing the land-line infrastructure at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Focusing On Your Core Business] Reference

One potential mover could be Windstream Corp., another large land-line company.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Gambles on Qwest Merger] Reference

The telecom giant said a slowdown in business spending hurt its land-line unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [AmEx, BofA, TI Rise as Delta Floats Down] Reference

AT&T is banking on wireless growth offsetting problems in the land-line business.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T's Wireless Wild Card] Reference

There may be little the company can do to stem erosion of the land-line phone business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Phones In Another Deal] Reference

You don't even know how many young people were in the sample of these land-line owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls Show McCain Starting To Get Convention Bounce] Reference

This belief extends beyond its entrenched land-line services into the world of wireless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Karr: Roadblocks to the Mobile Web] Reference

The wireless unit's performance is compensating for the deteriorating land-line business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon Posts 9.8% Increase in Profit] Reference

The review is expected to cover all areas from land-line voice and broadband service to wireless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telecoms Face Antitrust Threat] Reference

I don't personally know anyone that even has a land-line anymore, even my grandpa has a cell phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huckabee Online Fundraising] Reference

Alas, land-line customers declined by 9.8% in the quarter versus a year ago, rattling some investors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon Looks Hip, Even Without an iPhone] Reference

Combined, they have 90 million land-line customers and 60% of the 274 million U.S. wireless subscribers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telecoms Face Antitrust Threat] Reference

Perhaps that omission has to do with college students being the least likely to have land-line telephones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary Leads Dems Among Every Demographic] Reference

Bundled services have become increasingly important to phone companies as customers drop land-line service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwest to Use Verizon for Wireless Services] Reference

Mr. Berler also bought AT&T Inc., figuring that concerns about its eroding land-line business were overblown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Osterweis Fund Bets On AT&T, Prudential] Reference

Apprehensive, Gabriel reached for his cell phone and rang both her numbers — first her cell, then the land-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

So, land-line calls into Kosovo still must use the exchange, +381, of a group that many Kosovars detest: the Serbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom's Ring:] Reference

Why would they build cheaper and more open mobile networks that could cannibalize their legacy land-line businesses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Karr: America's Internet Future Looking Like Its Past] Reference

Other major phone companies offer their own wireless services, which help offset their shrinking land-line services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwest, Verizon Discuss Wireless Pact] Reference

This latest deal clearly establishes CenturyTel as a major national player in the land-line telecommunications business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Phones In Another Deal] Reference

Its land-line business is shrinking as consumers switch to cellphones and businesses reduce spending on telecom services.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T Talks Extended, Averting Possible Strike] Reference

Under the tentative deal, Verizon will transfer more than 600 positions from that division to the Verizon land-line group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon-Union Deal Averts Strike] Reference

Revenue in the wireline segment, however, fell 2.9% as the company continues to face a deterioration in its land-line business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon Struggles to Add New Users] Reference

Cell phone penetration and internet access in Iran exceeds land-line capacity and cuts across urban, rural rich, and poor divides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamsheed K. Choksy: Iran, Protest, and Intelligence: Why Strategic Reports Often Get it Wrong] Reference

Ms. Toben said during a conference call Monday the rate in the land-line side had improved, while the wireless side had stabilized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon Posts 9.8% Increase in Profit] Reference

After all, if Verizon and Vodafone Group ever decide to merge, spinning out the former's land-line business would probably make sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CenturyTel Phones In Another Deal] Reference

But for now, they have to protect their legacy cellular business, which is especially crucial as the land-line voice business declines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skype to Launch iPhone Software] Reference

The company continued to see a significant decline in land-line users, with a loss of more than one million access lines in the quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon gets boost from wireless] Reference

Now Net2Phone is offering a VoIP service for calls on your home or office land-line phone, or even your cell phone -- at way-cheap rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Net Savings] Reference

The unions involved in these contract discussions represent Verizon land-line employees who account for about 25% of the company's revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verizon-Union Deal Averts Strike] Reference