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

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

With growing concerns about screen time, social media and the safety of kids online, parents and others are trying new — and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Standing in the kitchen of her South Portland home, eight-year old Piper Morse picks up a phone to call a friend. "Hi Carly. Whatcha doin?" Piper asks. The two have a lot to discuss: soccer game ...

WHITEFIELD, Maine – Peter Froehlich lives at the end of a mile-long dirt road in a part of Maine where pickup trucks share the right of way with wandering dairy cows. The local cable company won’t run ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two kids realize what a landline phone is — and that they "actually work" — in a hilarious TikTok that's making everyone feel old. The clip is captioned: "POV: You're seeing a landline phone for the ...