French telecommunications company, Orange (formerly France Telecom) is one of the largest mobile service providers in the world. They focus on giving customers a wide array of services such as mobile, landline, internet, and IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), which is the streaming of television over WiFi.
Although fixed landlines are still widely used, Orange announced on November 2018 that all traditional fixed telephone subscriptions will no longer be offered. Orange plans on migrating to a completely digital network.
They will remain operational until 2023 when the operator will completely shut down the traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and PBX system (Private Automatic Branch eXchange).
As it is already the case for many households, telephony will then pass through a box or an IP box.
In the United States, there are currently about 115 million fixed lines, regardless of their connection.
In 5 years' time, some of these lines, still at low speed, will, therefore, have to be switched to ADSL.