Utility Keeping Landline Phones Alive: Consultant

Reliability, compliance compatibility and functionality issues keep landline phones in use in locations from cell centers and hospitals to trading floors and hotels, wrote Rich Tehrani, CEO of tech consultancy TMC. Hotel rooms are often mandated to have access to 911 via a hard-wired phone in each room, he said Monday. There's also often user resistance to losing desk phones, particularly in front-office or high-call-volume positions, he added.