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.

Take the near-bygone era phone handset, for instance. He pries the plastic apart, at the expense of a potential break or a scuffed edge, and reveals the simple innards: a transmitter, a receiver and ...

Fraudsters are increasingly targeting commuters using portable transmitters known as 'SMS blasters', a new report by a British think-tank warns today.

Millennial and Gen X parents who spent their teenage years stretching spiral phone cords into their bedrooms and talking ...

A father asked his daughter to trying calling him using an old landline he had lying around. He then recorded her struggling ...

Mobile phones the size of bricks and no Google translate to correct horrible French - those were the happiest of days!

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has allowed a class action claim - originally worth “at least” £3.285bn - against EE ...

R emember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were once everywhere—on many busy street corners, in bars and ...

If you're of a certain age, say 40 and up, you may have had a landline phone in the house. They still work, even if you don't have landline phone service. A gadget, the Cell2Jack, connects almost any ...

Remember the days of anxiously waiting for your sibling to get off the landline so you could take your turn? Of racking up your parents' phone bill just to talk to your friend for hours about… God ...

Mariah Houghton tells PEOPLE that her landline, shared only with her parents, sister and three best friends, has become a sacred space for connection and calm Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at ...