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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 ...

BOUNTIFUL — No ringing. No busy signals. No calls at all. All Thomas Coppin gets on his home phone is a message on its screen saying, "Check Tel Line." "I haven't had a dial tone since August the 17th ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Lane Handke called his wife, Cathleen, the other day to tell her he was bringing home the shelves they needed to finish their cabinet. The call cost him 25 cents ...

I might live in the last household on Earth to still claim an active landline. Call me Wilma Flintstone, but several personal and professional reasons have kept my home tethered to this phonasaurus ...

Does a cellphone have a dial tone? Mobile cellphone never have a dial tone. Before the cellphone came into common usage, a dial tone on a landline told you that the line was available; however, it is ...

In a recent excavation of my mother's walk-in closet, I discovered our old Western Electric telephone. I believe it is a Design Line-->Celebrity-->model 2940 telephone. Overall, it's in good working ...

Such was the sound of AOL's dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it's getting rid of dial-up. "AOL routinely evaluates its ...