Landline phones operate on a separate infrastructure, ... AllConnect currently tracks only three service providers offering old-style landlines: CenturyLink, Comcast Xfinity and Cox.

It’s easy to convert an old push-button or rotary phone to a Bluetooth receiver that works with your cell phone, and almost as well as a dedicated landline phone. Here’s how to make it happen.

What we really needed was an effective, hands-free speakerphone—and that’s exactly what the desk-style phone in my kitchen now provides. Cordless phones once promised to let callers move ...

Gen Z has an affinity for making old things new again and an enchantment with early 2000s technology — and their next target is none other than the corded landline phone. The '90s called, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Chamber of Commerce, nearly 69 million Americans still have a landline as of July 2024. That’s compared to roughly 183 million who rely on wireless phones. A spokesperson for AT ...

Telecommunications company AT&T plans to eliminate traditional landline phone service to nearly all of the U.S. in its service area over the next five years. In a statement made as part of a ...

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. You May Still Need Your Landline in 2025.