Quaint. Australia already has, it's all VoIP, mobile or web. A lot of the larger web-focused corporations don't have public phone numbers anymore. If you want a

Quaint. Australia already has, it's all VoIP, mobile or web. A lot of the larger web-focused corporations don't have public phone numbers anymore. If you want a home phone in Australia, you are required to get VoIP which runs over the NBN, though I haven't had a home phone line connected for about a decade (outside of DSL, though the line is so degraded I eventually got a Starlink). POTS is dead. That recent Optus outage was a reminder that fallbacks are very necessary for any communications system, however.