PRNewswire ran a PR news release for Verizon today that says that Verizon is in the process of installing voice over internet phone services to 12 schools in the Sherman School District in Texas. The reason that I find this article, and others like it, interesting is that it shows a snapshot of what is happening all across the country; landlines are being replaced by VoIP in a wholesale fashion.

If you think about this small school district in Texas, bringing in the technology to replace the phone service to 12 schools, serving 6,100 students,  think of what’s happening around the country in larger metropolitian areas. I remember seeing a small piece in the Oregonian a few years back that said that Oregon has lost 3% of their land lines in 2002 alone. Those kinds of numbers really make you sit up and pay attention.

Check out Verizon’s Internet Phone Service if you live in one of the areas they service and would like to get rid of your land line and start saving money too.