If you've 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.

Americans said the landline was a necessity of life, according to a study by Pew Research Center. However, with the advent of ...

In a sign of changing times, AT&T, the nation’s largest wireless provider, will be switching from traditional landlines in ...

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 ...

Landline telephones can be a lifeline when disaster strikes remote towns. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yue Stella Yu, a reporter for CalMatters, about why landlines remain important in California.

While it may seem that the cell phone has completely taken over, many homeowners still hold onto their landlines. There are good reasons for this. In addition to safety concerns, there are family ...

An entrepreneur turned her nostalgic idea of a landline-style phone into a business bonanza by making more than ₹1 crore ...

Dear John: You recently wrote about landline telephones and how they have become obsolete. In an electrical blackout, cell phones and internet phones won’t work, But landlines likely will. So they are ...

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 ...

Use of landline telephones in the UK has fallen dramatically with more than four million households disconnecting altogether since 2000, according to research by price comparison site Uswitch. More ...

Some people may think it odd that I still have landline phones in my house. After all, I’m an engineer who has worked on everything from spectrophotometers to satellites. I have more computers than ...