raised the last telephone pole of the phone line that connected San Francisco to New York, and thus the first transcontinental phone line was complete. The phone lines continued to improve ...

Drivers will not be able to pay their bills or access their accounts for several days during the upgrade, officials said.

For five years AT&T had wanted to link the phone lines from one side of the country to the other. They finally found the device that could help them do it: Lee De Forest's "audions," the first ...

Speeds eventually reached 33.6 kbps which was believed to be near the theoretical maximum speed possible over standard telephone lines. This largely came down to the Shannon limit of typical phone ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -- Rivers swollen by a typhoon off Russia's Pacific coast cascaded through hundreds of villages, sending residents scrambling onto roofs and cutting power and telephone ...