The carrier reasoned that plain old telephone service is, well, old, and demand is low. Only about 5% of the households AT&T serves use copper-based landlines, a company spokesperson said.

Verizon, one of several corporate heirs to the old Bell system telephone monopoly and the one doing business here, didn‘t respond to questions from The Republican over the past few weeks.

About 30 years ago, American Telephone and Telegraph ended its telegraph services. Now AT&T is taking aim at “plain old telephone service.” The Dallas-based telecom giant has applied to the ...

AT&T said the number of copper landlines, known as plain old telephone service, or POTS, that it provides in California fell by 89 percent from 2000 to 2021.

Before telephone wires were coated in plastic, they were originally protected by a layer of lead. Lead-sheathed cables were largely phased out in the 1950s, but in Portland’s oldest ...

It happened in the 5200 block of O'Donnell Street around 6:19 am Saturday. Once on the scene, police saw a vehicle was on fire after hitting a telephone pole.

The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million.