Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AT&T plans to discontinue landline phone service in nearly every state, including Ohio, by the end of the decade. The company ...

(CNN) — More people who are still using telephone landlines will soon need to decide if they want to finally hang up on their service. Just last week, AT&T applied for a waiver that would allow it to ...

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 ...

Dozens of North Bay residents described long outages, hours on the phone, mixed messages, missed repair appointments — and few other options — as they seek answers from AT&T.

PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON LANDLINES. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE STATE ARE CALLING IN TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS. AT&T IS ASKING THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, OR CPUC TO RELEASE IT FROM ...

About 30 years ago, American Telephone and Telegraph ended its telegraph services. Now AT&T is taking aim at “plain old telephone service.” The Dallas-based telecom giant has applied to the California ...

Traditional phones may seem like relics in the iPhone era, but a recent AT&T cellular service outage had some landline lovers extolling their virtues. Lois Jackson of Mamaroneck, N.Y., using a ...