(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...