The forecast underscores the challenges faced by traditional wire-line telephone service providers as broadband services, portals, ISPs, and other providers increasingly plan to bundle voice services with other offerings, such as cable or satellite television, mobile phone service, and Internet service. Wireline service is traditionally telephone companies mainstay revenue: communications trends may come and go, but regional telephone companies have always been able to rely on revenue from their (often exclusive) monopolies on local telephone service.

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