About 1/2 of Spokane residents have home phones, 40% in Kootenai Co

Lee Ann Mauk spent nine days without power after Spokane’s 2015 windstorm. She couldn’t turn lights on, take a hot shower or keep food frozen. But through it all, her landline phone kept working.

“We didn’t have stoves. We didn’t have hot water. We didn’t have refrigerators. But we did have our phone,” she said.

It’s no secret that the number of households with landlines is dwindling across the United States.

As of December 2015, the most recent data available from the Federal Communications Commission, Spokane County had 96,000 active residential landlines. That’s about one for every two households. That number is down from the June 2014 FCC count, which showed 106,000 residential landlines in Spokane.

In Kootenai County, the number for both snapshots was 40 percent/ Rachel Alexander , SR. More here.

Question: Do you still have a home phone?