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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Landline

AT&T had already been struggling with a decline in revenue from its traditional wireline phone service as customers continued to drop landlines.

What does 'drop landlines' mean?


Can I rephrase the bold part as 'landline customers continued to drop' or 'customers continued to drop in landlines'?

Thanks.
  

Top answer

You drop a service or a coverage. I dropped my medical insurance. I dropped my newspaper home-delivery service.

— Avangi

  • You drop a service or a coverage.
  • I dropped my medical insurance.
  • I dropped my newspaper home-delivery service.
  • A customer who had a landline last week has dropped the service, choosing to rely on his cellphone.
  • He is no longer a landline customer.
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You drop a service or a coverage. I dropped my medical insurance. I dropped my newspaper home-delivery service.

A customer who had a landline last week has dropped the service, choosing to rely on his cellphone. He is no longer a landline customer.

Both your rephrasings sound pretty bad to me. The first one sounds like they're dying. In the second one, it's the num
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Thanks, Avangi .
I now understand what 'drop landlines' means, and thus my two alternatives are inevitably bad.
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