It will also be an object of other times, yet almost 61% of Italians still have a landline phone in their home and therefore has a tariff that – alone or more likely together with internet connectivity – also provides the fixed telephony, most of the time VoIP. At the home of some grandmothers, it will not be too difficult to find some pieces of modern antiques, such as the inimitable “big gray” by Siemens, produced in 1962, the first to be rented all over the country from Sip and to have given birth to hundreds of epigones.
According to a survey commissioned by Facile.it to the research institutes mUp Research and Norstat, they are indeed more than 26.5 million the Italians (in fact 60.8%) who still have a landline phone at home. Analyzing the data, however, it turns out – obviously without too many surprises – that today its function is, at least partially, changed or even overturned compared to that of the mobile phone.
«Those who continue to keep fixed assets at home do so mainly for safety reasons in an emergency (41%) or as means of communication reserved for a few close friends (28%) »explains Mario Rasimelli, Managing director utilities of Facile.it. “Well, once upon a time i close contacts they were the only ones to whom we gave the mobile number, today they are the only ones who can reach us even when our smartphone is off ». A specular situation even just ten, fifteen years ago. An attitude also designed to defend against the aggression of telemarketing wild that if it is true that it now passes from mobile numbers has never given up on fixed ones. Among other things, from next August, with the new one register of oppositionswe will finally be able to register both types of users (in addition to the address of residence or domicile) in the list of those who do not want to be disturbed and receive that type of communication.
Returning to the landline, and looking more closely at the survey results, it emerges that the landline phone is present to a greater extent in the homes of over 65 (78%) while, at a territorial level, the most loyal ones were the resident in the South and on the islands (64%).
What, on the other hand, determined the choice of those 17 million who gave up on wire and handset? In 59% of cases they chose to eliminate the fixed for economic reasonsin 45% for replace it with your cell phone and in 19%, as explained above, for do not be disturbed at home by call centers.
The mUp Research – Norstat survey was carried out through the administration of 1,009 Cawi interviews to a sample of individuals aged between 18 and 74, representative of the Italian adult population residing throughout the country.
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