Daniel AJ Sokolov<p>September 11, 2003, I cancelled my <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/landline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>landline</span></a>, then sat down to write this article for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline" class="u-url mention">@<span>heiseonline</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Telering-attackiert-Telekom-Austria-85247.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/Telering-attacki</span><span class="invisible">ert-Telekom-Austria-85247.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege</span></a><br />(In German)<br />That evening, Austrian mobile network <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/telering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>telering</span></a> introduced a radical price: Calls to landlines would cost only 1 Cent a minute. It was a revolution that hastened the decline of landlines in <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>austria</span></a> <br />So this month 20 years ago, my landline was cut off. I have never looked back. <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Telecommunications</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>telecom</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/anniversary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anniversary</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/savings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>savings</span></a></p>