[scottteng]

If you have FIOS you no longer have a land line. A land line is a pair of copper wires with DC power running through them. FIOS is fiber optic digital transmission of voice. The box they put in your house reconverts the digital signal to voice. Your phone will last as long after the power goes out as the battery that is in the box.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yah,I understand the part about copper vs fiber.I think of “landline” as meaning a phone in your home that stays there.Fios is a “landline” in that sense.I'm no expert on such things but it seems to me that fiber is the future.