As more parents try to limit their children’s screen time and keep them offline for as long as possible, many are turning ...

For months, Jeanne McCabe had been considering bringing back the home phone. She wanted her 10-year-old twins to be able to ...

Looking around at the ubiquitous proliferation of wireless smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the classic wired “landline” phone on a copper loop (thank you, Alexander Graham Bell and others) is a ...

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It was 6 p.m. on a school night, and 10-year-old Wanda was talking on the phone with a friend. It would have been an unremarkable scene if not for the phone itself: a retro-style black contraption ...

One of the hottest topics of conversation among parents right now is what to do about kids and phones. Increasingly, these conversations are dominated by stories of brave families who’ve gone ...

When millions of AT&T customers across the country briefly lost their cellphone service last month, Francella Jackson, 61, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, said she picked up her well-worn Southwestern ...

Landline phones aren’t going the way of the dodo in Massachusetts. At least anytime soon, it seems. While wide swaths of the country have left landline phones behind — now regarded as ancient relics ...