"Old fashioned" analog landline phones are in demand in Christchurch and residents are being urged to text instead of talk on their cell phones.


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Telecom had also started a campaign to collect "old fashioned" analogue landline phones, which do not require electricity, from around the country to distribute to people in Christchurch without power.