BALTIMORE — Maryland Public Service Commission staff members say basic telephone service shouldn't be abandoned as the telecommunications industry prepares to switch phone service away from ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. A Washington ...

AT&T's application to end its landline phone obligations in California is drawing protest from residents as state officials consider whether to let AT&T off the hook. AT&T filed an application to end ...

AT&T plans to eliminate its traditional landline phone service across nearly all U.S. states in its service area by 2029, according to an official announcement. The telecom company has said its copper ...

California regulators on Thursday rejected AT&T's request to no longer be legally required to provide basic telephone — landline — services to those who need them. Previous coverage in the video ...

Rod Hass, who lives in Lovelock, Butte County, drove to Roseville on Wednesday to ask CPUC regulators to protect landline telephone service. He said that landlines were the only communication ...

FIVE. RIGHT NOW, AT&T HAS REQUESTED TO WITHDRAW HIS CALIFORNIA’S CARRIER OF LAST RESORT. IT’S A STORY KCRA THREE INVESTIGATES HAS BEEN FOLLOWING CLOSELY AND NOW THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES ...

BE IMPACTED. WE’RE TWO MILES OUT OF NEVADA CITY. YEAH, WE’RE KIND OF PRETTY MUCH STRANDED OUT HERE WITHOUT A LANDLINE TO WENDY COSBY. OH, BROTHER. HER LANDLINE IS HER LIFELINE. WHEN WE NEED BASIC ...

AT&T has petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission to release it from its obligation as a “Carrier of Last Resort” in California, which requires it to provide basic telephone service in a ...

AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is drawing protest from residents as state officials consider whether to let AT&T off the hook. AT&T filed an application to end ...

The guarantee of landline telephone service at almost any address, a legal right many Americans may not even know they have, is quietly being legislated away in our U.S. state capitals. AT&T and ...

Not content to remain solely a provider of basic telephone service to 26 rural communities in Penobscot County, Bangor-based Mid-Maine Communications has been eyeing bigger markets for several years.