SHARONVILLE, OH — If you have older parents or grandparents, chances are they still use an old school landline phone. But that will soon change, whether they want it to or not. It's the result of an ...
If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the ...
US TO HAVE A SHUTDOWN. LIVE FROM SEVEN BURLINGTON STATION, THIS IS OMAHA’S NEWS LEADER KETV. NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT FIVE. AN 88 YEAR OLD WOMAN IS CALLING OUT HER PHONE COMPANY. SHE SAYS IT TOOK MONTHS TO ...
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 / ...
AT&T plans to discontinue landline phone service in nearly every state, including Ohio, by the end of the decade. The company announced that it intends to phase out its copper wire infrastructure that ...
It's the end of an era. AT&T plans to discontinue landline phone service in nearly every state, including New York, by 2029. The telecommunications company announced last week that it intends to phase ...
When Andy Brady had his cable television service installed, a landline telephone number was part of the package deal. He’s never hooked a phone to it, though. That probably says something about the ...
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The Death of the Landline Will Kill You

When you visit Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut, you may be told about his telephone. It was one of the first ...
ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE PHONE ACCOUNTS. ONE DAY, THE PHONE WORKED. WE’VE HAD THAT PHONE NUMBER OVER 40 YEARS, AND THE NEXT DAY IT WAS GONE. I WENT TO USE THE TELEPHONE AND THE TELEPHONE WAS DEAD.
Ily, a gadget that makes it easy for families to stay in touch, may signal how technology will develop in the Internet of Everything. In the headlong rush toward the smartphone era, we’ve quietly ...
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 ...