Landlines, for some, are ancient history. But for others, they’re still part of the present for various reasons. Heather Kelly, a technology reporter at the Washington Post, has written about the ...

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

A Seattle startup is reviving the landline — without screens, apps, or AI — and parents can’t buy them fast enough. In this Uncommon Thinkers episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Tin Can CEO Chet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Andy Brady had his cable television service installed, a landline telephone number was part of the package deal. He’s never hooked a phone to it, though. That probably says something about the ...

Looking around at the ubiquitous proliferation of wireless smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the classic wired “landline” phone on a copper loop (thank you, Alexander Graham Bell and others) is a ...

Remember the days of anxiously waiting for your sibling to get off the landline so you could take your turn? Of racking up your parents' phone bill just to talk to your friend for hours about… God ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Oct. 22, 2024. Click here for that audio. Landlines, for some, are ancient history. But for others, they’re still part of the present for various reasons ...