Someday I'm sure we will have our home phone, internet and mobiles all bundled together, particularly if a household has more than one mobile on the same bill. Some time after that, however, the landline will disappear entirely in favour of so-called "naked DSL" as standard. At some point the terminology will have to change, which will be fine, since we will have moved on from DSL to FTTP or some other next-generation wired standard.
Our mobiles will serve as our music players, personal organisers and portable game devices besides handling voice and internet too. WiFi or its equivalent is already the standard way to get a whole house online, but more devices will use it in future. I find Foxtel IQ particularly anachronistic in that it requires its own dedicated telephone line to "phone home", rather than using its two-way network cable connection. Wireless is the way to do that properly, so our set-top boxes will connect to our home wireless network. Your TV and radio will access the web rather than broadcast airwaves, and your digital picture frames will pick up images from your shared home collection.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - Or your picture frames could display your Facebook friends' new images.
PPS - Or a random Flickr stream.
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