Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Say farewell to the landline telephone. AT&T is phasing out the system by the end of this decade. The process has already begun in ...

When Andy Brady had his cable television service installed, a landline telephone number was part of the package deal. He’s never hooked a phone to it, though. That probably says something about the ...

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 ...

People are nostalgic for a simpler time without smartphones, social media and AI. Cat Goetze is dialed in. The 29-year-old in Los Angeles is the founder of Physical Phones, a Bluetooth-enabled ...

Cat Goetze, 29, wanted to spend less time on her cellphone, so she created a bluetooth compatible landline phone. Cat's business, Physical Phones, currently sells three styles of phones that range ...

AT&T has started a slow but decisive countdown on the copper phone network that powered the original American landline, and the company is now working toward shutting off most of those traditional ...

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 ...

Tin Can co-founders from left, Graeme Davies, Chet Kittleson, and Max Blumen on the colorful landline phones the company makes. (Tin Can Photo) Answering the startup call is not always as literal as ...

When her smartphone started to feel more compelling than real life, for entrepreneur Cat Goetze, that was a wake-up call. “I decided to create the landline phone because I realized one day that the ...