Some people are even “cutting the cord”— ditching fixed lines altogether in favour of mobile phones.
甚至有些人已经迫不及待的“切断了这种束缚”——全然的摒弃固定电话线，转而使用移动电话。
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The amount of cord-cutting could pick up over time , but networks like ESPN are limiting the amount of video they make available on the Internet without a subscription partly to prevent that.
This action, often called cord-cutting, has happened in 0.28 percent of households in the United States in the last three months, ESPN found in a study that it plans to release on Monday.