Latest Landline phone News

The trend for landline phones is towards digital cordless phones, with multiple handsets and answering machines. Landline phones offer better call quality and service than a number of VoIP suppliers. Even though landline phones can be replaced by mobile phone and VoIP telephony, many people still keep a landline phone for emergency calls, as things can go wrong with a mobile phone (lack of signal, no batteries, etc).

Dump Your Landline, but Keep Your Home Phone

Ask anyone under 30 for their home phone number and they may look at you funny. The landline business is in permanent decline. After peaking at about 141 million in 2000, the number of U.S. home phones fell to 78 million by the end of 2008, according to the Federal Communications Commission. While most of this erosion was the result of people going wireless, the FCC says some 19 million ...

Vodafone Signs MVNO Deal with UK Landline Operator

The recently demerged UK domestic landline and internet services provider, TalkTalk Group has signed an MVNO agreement with Vodafone. This autumn, it will be adding contract mobile voice tariffs and mobile broadband to its range of services for its existing and new landline and broadband customers.

Consumer advocate wants hearing on Frontier phone problems

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginias utility watchdog has called on the state Public Service Commission to investigate the reasons for a sharp rise in customer complaints since Frontier Communications Corp. purchased Verizons landline network. Byron Ha...

W.Va. Consumer Advocate Wants Phone Case Reopened

The West Virginia Public Service Commission's Consumer Advocate Division wants the agency to take another look at Frontier Communication Corp.'s acquisition of Verizon's landline network in the state.

Skokie emergency phone alert set for test run Tuesday

Skokie has scheduled a test run of its new emergency telephone notification system for 10 a.m. Tuesday throughout the village.

Cut Fiber Line Causes Phone Disruptions

AT&T says a third party cut a fiber line near Spiro, causing hundreds to go without cell phone and landline service.

Frontier Communications takes over local phone service

DeKALB – Flooding that caused about 80 households in DeKalb to lose telephone service this week came at an inconvenient time for landline service provider Frontier Communications: it has been some customers’ first introduction to the company that took over local phone service from Verizon on July 1.

Crooks find new phone scam

While spending time behind bars, some criminals are thinking of new ways to get what they want at someone else’s expense. Most recently, this talent has manifested in reports of collect calls from correctional facilities asking unsuspecting parties to connect calls for them.

Verizon phone outage hits part of Manhattan

Landline and cell phones were unable to complete calls in part of New York because of a malfunction in Verizon's network on Monday, the company said.

Village clubs together to reconnect red phone box which charges 1p per minute

A village has clubbed together to reconnect a traditional red telephone box which now charges just 1p per minute for calls.