BT and other home phone providers including Sky, Virgin Media and Plusnet will be forced to visit customers' homes.

The UK government has announced plans to protect the elderly and disabled individuals as phone systems transition from ...

Nancy VanCleve’s landline is her lifeline. She knows it’s old-fashioned, but she has no interest in a cell phone.

Dial-up and DSL are the only internet types that require a direct phone line to the home, but you'll only need landline ...

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has today released a progress update on their Digital Landline Switchover (DLS) programme ...

Honolulu’s 911 system is currently down for customers using certain providers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. In an ...

AT&T is seeking approval from the FCC to grandfather and then discontinue a copper-based network with few users.

There is no cell coverage north of Kootenay Lake where several communities were evacuated last summer due to wildfires ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has ...

Wire theft on St. Paul’s East Side has left hundreds of homes without access to their landline phone service for nearly two ...

New data suggests that almost 162,000 households in Sussex are estimated to be paying for a landline they don’t use, with over a quarter of local billpayers (27% ... are even less likely to use their ...