Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

According to Euronews, Finland has officially shut down its analogue landline telephone network, closing the book on a hundred fifty years of copper-wire connectivity. The transition marks the end of an infrastructure era—most Finns had already switched to mobile and broadband long ago, leaving the system a relic of a slower, more tethered age. It's a quiet but definitive moment: the landline, once the spine of telecommunications, is now fully historical in one of the world's most digitally advanced nations.

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