When cellular telephone calling and data service for about 1.5 million people failed last week, I cast more than one wistful ...

It’s an ordinary, old black pay phone, its push buttons faded by decades of fingers pressing the numbers. But I like to call it the world’s most beautiful pay phone, thanks to its front-row view of ...

From rotary dials to dead silence, Joe Crawford says goodbye to the landline ...

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 ...

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 ...