AT&T plans to discontinue landline phone service in nearly every state, including Ohio, by the end of the decade. The company announced that it intends to phase out its copper wire infrastructure that ...

State utility regulators Thursday unanimously shot down an unpopular proposal by AT&T to scrap landline service for much of California. Critics argued the plan would have stripped many older people ...

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Community members in Marrowbone, Rockhouse, and Elkhorn City have reported an ongoing outage impacting their landline phones and Internet connections since September 12.

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 ...

(TNS) — Telecommunications giant AT&T, stymied last year by regulators in its bid to drop land-line service to California customers, is taking its battle to the state Legislature. And so far, the ...

If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the ...

The California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to reject AT&T's request to withdraw as a carrier of last resort, but it also decided to revisit the rules of determination. Meanwhile, a new ...

(TNS) — State utility regulators Thursday unanimously shot down a massively unpopular proposal by AT&T to scrap landline service for most of the Bay Area and much of California that critics charged ...