Smartphones have come to dominate our consumer life, but in many businesses across the country, there’s still a strong case for that hard plastic handset.

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.

The landline’s decline was precipitous once it got underway. In Oregon, the steepest declines were a decade ago, when the number of homes with their own phone lines dropped by more than 11% in 2014.

A video showcasing two kids using a landline telephone for the first time has gone viral on TikTok, with viewers in stitches over the pair's stunned reaction to the antiquated piece of technology.

In a Nov. 12, 2011 photo, rows of old and newer telephones are in a Parkersburg, West Virginia, museum. A recent study found most Utahns have abandoned landline phones for wireless-only options ...

Polling practices have changed significantly over the past two decades, especially with the decline of landline usage.

AT&T customers who still use the carrier's landline service should be prepared to say goodbye sometime in the next five years. At its 2024 Analysts and Investors Day on Wednesday, the company said ...

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A statewide telecommunications outage Thursday impacted internet and landline phones services, including calls to 911 and area hospitals. Lumen techs restored "almost all" consumer broadband and ...

As work communication migrates to mobile devices, desk phones hang up for good Barely a quarter of U.S. adults continue to own landlines. But wireless at work and home means you’re always ...

PORTLAND — Sunday, March 10, is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and ...