In most consumer households, traditional landline telephones are a relic of the past. But in the business world, they’re thriving.Hotels, hospitals, stores, customer service call centers and corporate ...

The phone Morse got her daughter is light pink with a curly cord and sits atop a buffet table outside the family’s kitchen.

Landline cord-cutters: 'The young and the restless' Researchers found that cutting the cord says something about who you are. One trait stood out: The boldness it took to go wireless, at a time ...

THE PIERCING RING of a home phone used to command respect. “That’s how I was raised: When the phone rings, you hop to it,” I heard my mom say recently as we chatted on my new landline phone ...

Charlene Hopey has seen firsthand why having a traditional phone landline at her house is beneficial. Hopey, who lives in the Santa Monica Mountains region, has lived through California wildfires ...

Landline phones operate on a separate infrastructure, built from copper phone lines that are inexpensive to build and rather reliable. They also don't have the drawbacks of cellular networks, ...

Gen Z has an affinity for making old things new again and an enchantment with early 2000s technology — and their next target is none other than the corded landline phone.

Older Millennials remember landline phones. The early 1990s meant that we had to wait until someone was off the phone before we could access the Internet and talk to our friends on AOL Messenger.

"We're going backwards", a rural estate manager has said ahead of the switchover from analogue to digital. David Hill manages 5,000-acre Eling Estate, near Newbury in west Berkshire, and said he was ...

His landline phone is not only more reliable than a cellphone, he said, but also encourages him to memorize friends’ phone numbers, which he considers a form of intimacy.

Who still owns a landline phone? You might be surprised at what the data shows. Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY. Updated Thu, October 24, 2024 at 1:04 PM UTC. 6 min read.