(USA Today) -- First it was street-corner phone booths and home delivery of telephone books. Now, land lines are on their way to becoming part of American telecommunications history. As consumers ...

Ooma, a Palo Alto company, is letting you make free land-line phone calls to anyone in the United States. It hopes to let people share their phone lines with each ...

Traditional land-line phones, once the bedrock of communications in the United States, are quickly going the way of eight-track tapes as consumers go wireless or choose Internet-based phone calling.

A growing number of Americans is cutting the cord on home phones. A new government survey says 4 out of 10 American households are connected to the outside world through cell phones only, compared to ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan residents have steadily traded their land line phone service for cellphones over the past decade, and now state lawmakers are looking at making it easier for phone ...

In the wake of the massive Verizon Jan. 14 outage, some wondered if consumers might head back to another era and re-install telephone land lines as an emergency back up plan. The short answer, after ...