Some people are even “cutting the cord”— ditching fixed lines altogether in favour of mobile phones.

甚至有些人已经迫不及待的“切断了这种束缚”——全然的摒弃固定电话线，转而使用移动电话。

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But Telcel faces much greater competitive pressure in the mobile market than Telmex does in fixed lines.

但是，和Telmex在固定电话市场所面临的情况不同，Telcel在移动通信市场的竞争压力要大的多。

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The number of fixed lines in the world has essentially been frozen around 1.2bn since 2006 and saw a slight decline in 2008.

全球固定电话数量自2006年以来停滞在12亿左右，2008年还略有减少。

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It called for flexibility on assembly lines, and mandated that problems be fixed as soon as they were discovered so mistakes would not be repeated.

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In their 30-year life they installed 10m fixed lines and registered 1m mobile phones.

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