Yep, still a thing here in New Zealand. Though the number of people who still have a landline connection at home is dropping greatly, and the few that also have

Yep, still a thing here in New Zealand. Though the number of people who still have a landline connection at home is dropping greatly, and the few that also have a phone which can run off the phoneline even fewer. (you need a fairly basic landline phone) Before we got fibre we had our phone just connected to the landline and no power, was great, because it always worked, power cut, still worked.