If you've still have your old cordless phone, it could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world in the event of massive mobile network outages.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...