Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...

The discontinuation of phone service to students who have not paid their bills caused an uproar across campus this week, as frustrated students were unable to reach people via phone numbers listed in ...

Does a cellphone have a dial tone? Mobile cellphone never have a dial tone. Before the cellphone came into common usage, a dial tone on a landline told you that the line was available; however, it is ...

Steven Freund just wants his landline back. “Dec. 12, I got up, picked up the phone to make a phone call, and there wasn’t anything,” he recalls. Since then, no dial tone, no rings and no service.

BOUNTIFUL — No ringing. No busy signals. No calls at all. All Thomas Coppin gets on his home phone is a message on its screen saying, "Check Tel Line." "I haven't had a dial tone since August the 17th ...