NEW YORK --Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group -- people with a landline phone at home. According to a U.S. government study released Thursday, 50 ...

NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich. — The classic landline telephone, a staple in many American homes for over a century, is on the verge of becoming a relic of the past. AT&T recently announced plans to phase out ...

If you're a landline user in Georgia, you may need to make alternative plans for the future. AT&T will eliminate its landline phone service in almost every state in its service area, including Georgia ...

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. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / ...

Charlene Hopey has seen firsthand why having a traditional phone landline at her house is beneficial. Hopey, who lives in the Santa Monica Mountains region, has lived through California wildfires and ...

If you live in any of the U.S. states where AT&T is the primary phone carrier — prepare for a big change: Landline phone service might be going the way of the dinosaur. According to the Chicago ...

More than 3 in 4 American adults lived in homes without a landline at the end of 2023, according to the most recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 76% of adults and ...

Reporting from San Francisco — The landline telephone — curly corded, cord-free, rotary or with chunky plastic buttons — used to be a fixture of American homes. But like most analog technology, it’s ...

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 ...