AT&T has started a slow but decisive countdown on the copper phone network that powered the original American landline, and ...

Traditional phones may seem like relics in the iPhone era, but a recent AT&T cellular service outage had some landline lovers extolling their virtues. Lois Jackson of Mamaroneck, N.Y., using a ...

Landlines are nearing obsolescence. For many young people, theyâve gone the way of CD-Roms, cassette tapes and the humble printer. On TikTok, parents film their children holding wall phones like ...

If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the ...

If you've been through one of the massive mobile network outages, then you've seen how it left you stranded without one of your most critical lines of access to the world for hours. If your smartphone ...

If there has been one inexorable trend in the telecommunications industry over the past 30 years, it has been the decline of the household landline phone connection. While Figure 1 illustrates the ...

Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling’s family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort’s hot tub. “My ...

ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE PHONE ACCOUNTS. ONE DAY, THE PHONE WORKED. WE’VE HAD THAT PHONE NUMBER OVER 40 YEARS, AND THE NEXT DAY IT WAS GONE. I WENT TO USE THE TELEPHONE AND THE TELEPHONE WAS DEAD.

A proposal by telecommunications giant AT&T to withdraw landline service from most of the Bay Area has sparked widespread fear among residents, many of whom live where cell service is spotty, power ...

When millions of AT&T customers across the country briefly lost their cellphone service last month, Francella Jackson, 61, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, said she picked up her well-worn Southwestern ...