A graduate student living in Chicago, Fogel used his cell phone for most calls. And when he replaced his dial-up Internet connection with a cable line, he realized his regular phone wasn’t central to ...

When you visit Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut, you may be told about his telephone. It was one of the first phones in the country, so he could neither call nor be called. He had faith in ...

“The telephone rang. It was an unusual hour for it to ring.” These two sentences are drawn from Vladimir Nabokov’s short story “Symbols and Signs,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 1948. They are ...

NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich. — The classic landline telephone, a staple in many American homes for over a century, is on the verge of becoming a relic of the past. AT&T recently announced plans to phase out ...

NEW YORK --Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group -- people with a landline phone at home. According to a U.S. government study released Thursday, 50 ...

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 ...