Eric Fruits and Brian Albrecht on Verizon’s Copper Landline Transition
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TheStreet cited a report by ICLE Director of Economic Research Eric Fruits and Chief Economist Brian Albrecht in an article on Verizon’s plans to discontinue copper landline service in portions of nine states. The piece examines the FCC’s decision to extend its review, concerns about replacement services, and declining use of traditional landlines. Read the full piece here.
According to a February report from the International Center for Law & Economics(ICLE), which analyzed FCC data, the number of U.S. consumers using copper-based traditional landline phone service fell 81%, from nearly 66 million to about 12.5 million between 2014 and 2024.