BT could face an investigation after its digital rollout left some vulnerable customers without access to a phone line.

Stanford graduate Catherine Goetze is behind Physical Phones. The tech founder built landline-style phones as a fun device that can help cut down on screen time. The phones are described as the only ...

New Pinwheel Home phone lets kids chat with approved family and friends — and dial 911 — without the distraction of screens, texting or games AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, January 5, 2026 ...

A reader got in touch with the Money blog team to help her sister, who is on benefits, get internet access - we set out some ...

So enamoured with this marvel of communication was I that for my third birthday, I asked for and received a toy version of ...

AT&T has started a slow but decisive countdown on the copper phone network that powered the original American landline, and ...

Villagers in a remote part of southern Scotland say the rollout of digital-only systems to replace analogue landlines will cut off their communications during emergencies. Eskdalemuir has little or no ...

KKO’s MindOne is a credit-card-sized BlackBerry-style keyboard phone with always-on AI ambitions. It uses SIMO vSIM fallback data in 140-plus countries and launches February 8, 2026 for $329 to $499.

A Seattle startup is reviving the landline — without screens, apps, or AI — and parents can’t buy them fast enough. In this Uncommon Thinkers episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Tin Can CEO Chet ...

Today, most Americans subscribe to home broadband internet and own a smartphone, while about four-in-ten say they're online almost constantly.

Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission is bringing back the phone booth — a technology many thought extinct in the age of ...

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