Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Following a huge digital shake-up by the telecoms industry, 2025 is predicted to mark the end of traditional landline phones.If people want to make a landline call, they will need the internet in order to do so.As a result, millions of people across the country will be forced to either make the switch to online or use a mobile phone instead.Some elderly people without access to the internet will need an engineer to visit and get them set up.The move has been compared by experts to the switch to digital television in 2012, after the transmitting of analogue to aerials was terminated by broadcasters.In response, experts have warned that there could be many older and vulnerable people in.
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