AT&T has started a slow but decisive countdown on the copper phone network that powered the original American landline, and ...

ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE PHONE ACCOUNTS. ONE DAY, THE PHONE WORKED. WE’VE HAD THAT PHONE NUMBER OVER 40 YEARS, AND THE NEXT DAY IT WAS GONE. I WENT TO USE THE TELEPHONE AND THE TELEPHONE WAS DEAD.

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If you're a landline user in Georgia, you may need to make alternative plans for the future. AT&T will eliminate its landline phone service in almost every state in its service area, including Georgia ...

The Federal Communications Commission gave AT&T an early Christmas present: permission to replace old copper home-phone lines with a new wireless landline technology. The regulatory step is narrow, ...

If there has been one inexorable trend in the telecommunications industry over the past 30 years, it has been the decline of the household landline phone connection. While Figure 1 illustrates the ...

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 ...

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 ...