jim.they didn't sell off the voip business: ECG is exiting the landline telephone business by December 31, 2007. <a href="http://www.epicus.com/" target="_blank">http://www.epicus.com/</a> ...."landline"...has nothing to do with voice over internet protocol ....... a landline phone competes with cellular...and voip ....... the whole reason for voip is to take business away from the traditional phone companies(landline)