If you think BT has a hard time keeping up with customer demand and maintaining its infrastructure today, you should tune into Dial “B” for Britain: The Story of the Landline on BBC4 tonight at 9pm, ...

DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Could you please look at the pictures of my telephone stand and chair? I would like to know when they were made and how much they are worth. They belonged to my grandparents.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

On Sept. 1, 1878, Emma Nutt showed up for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. It was her first day of work after leaving her old job at a telegraph company, and, whether she ...

Once among the most ubiquitous pieces of technology on Earth, old school, wired-and-jacked telephones are disappearing. In 2019, only about 31% of American households still had a landline, where 97% ...

From its invention 140 years ago to the selfie-packed smartphone present, CNET charts the evolution of perhaps the greatest tech of all time -- the telephone. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET ...

Being cooped up at home during a pandemic is not fun. But in 2020, it doesn’t involve being disconnected from the outside world. Actually, thanks to the internet, the greater risk is that you might ...