Long before the idea of hot dog-shaped iPhone cases, Otter Boxen, or even those swappable Nokia face plates, people were just as likely to express themselves with their landline phones. Growing up at ...

As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone ...

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 ...

A growing cohort of parents are looking back to their own childhoods for a lower-tech alternative to smartphones.

First came the rhinestone-encrusted rotary. Then the cherry-red lips. After that, the cheeseburger. By last summer, Chanell Karr had amassed a collection of six landline phones. Her most recent, an ...

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 today ...

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 ...

BINGHAMTON — AT&T recently announced a plan to end landline phone services nationwide by 2029. This change could impact millions of people across New York State still using landlines. Endicott ...