Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of abandoned telephone cables throughout the US are likely leaching toxic lead into American soil and waterways, an ...

AOL Time Warner's entry into voice service Thursday highlights the latest headache for regional phone companies, whose lock on the so-called local loop is looking increasingly precarious. Time Warner ...

Q: I wanted to add another telephone jack in my house, so I called the telephone company to set it up. The price they quoted was too much. I only want to install a jack on the opposite side of the ...

NEW YORK — Phone companies are losing the high-speed Internet game. In the second quarter, the landline phone industry lost broadband subscribers for the first time, as cable companies continued to ...