AT&T and Verizon want to make landlines a thing of the past

Two of the biggest telecoms in the US, AT&T and Verizon, are on a mission to make landlines nothing more than a footnote in the history of telecommunication. One state at a time, the two companies are lobbying for permission to replace POTS — the copper-wired landline phone system — with Internet-based systems that use the same wired and wireless broadband networks that we use for cable programming and accessing the web.