So, when I recently returned home to Burlington, Vermont, I got rid of my cell phone and traded in an old, rusty bike for a regular landline telephone that is connected to the wall and everything.

所以，最近回到佛蒙特州伯灵顿家中之后，我收起手机，用一辆旧得锈迹斑斑的自行车换来一部固定电话，把它接上，一切就都搞定了。

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Vonage, a us company, offers a service in which customers have standard phones but make calls through VOIP - though they still need a landline for the basic telephone connection.

美国Vonage公司的用户可以通过一般的电话拨打VOIP电话-尽管仍需要固定电话进行基本的通话转接。

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We tend to ignore the fact that our cellular telephone doesn't work like a landline phone;

我们经常忽略手机的工作方式不同于固定电话这样的细节；

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To get the money to help connect all U.S. households to the Net, the government would levy new taxes on your telephone landline and on calls made from mobile phones.

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Communication has moved from the telephone landline to the mobile phone to Internet telephony with Skype to now apps like GroupMe with mobile communications services which do not rely on a PC or telephone number.

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Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.

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