I heard there’s the same situation in Holland. In London at least, BT (the main phone provider) are increasing the number of landlines numbers - new homes are still installed with them I believe.

I’d thought about the USB dongle modems too - interesting idea. Especially as there are providers selling sims with lots of minutes calling time, for not too much a month. And maybe it’s cheap to call internationally too. As far as I know, Poseidon has some support for USB dongle modems.

It looks like I’m fighting a pretty relentless tide of Internet Everything with this one! And I have to say I haven’t been overwhelmed with callers, yet :) But very early days. I’ll give it a year before calling it quits if there’s no interest!

Here’s one good thing which has come from the idea though - it finally got me to register MorphOS!