Number of UK landline calls falls by 50% in six years

The number of UK landline calls has almost halved in the past six years, as Britons rely increasingly on their mobiles. The UK made 54bn minutes worth of landline calls throughout 2017, down from 103bn  in 2012, research from Ofcom found. During the same period, call minutes made on mobiles rose from 132.1bn to 148.6bn.…