We’ve all been there: Someone calls your cell phone and wants to have a long heart-to-heart, so you tell them to call back on a landline to save voice minutes or to get a better signal. Plantronics ...

While landline phones seem like a long-lost relic from an era of rotary dials and busy signals, their very singular purpose has started to appeal again in our smartphone-fatigued moment. The lack of ...

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 ...

Landlines, for some, are ancient history. But for others, they’re still part of the present for various reasons. Heather Kelly, a technology reporter at the Washington Post, has written about the ...

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 ...

Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...