Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AT&T plans to eliminate its traditional landline phone service across nearly all U.S. states in its service area by 2029, ...

Verizon may soon be removing the old-school copper wires that have connected New Yorkers to the phone system for the last 150 years. Pending Federal Communications Commission approval that’s ...

At the home of T. J. Smith here in this Fort Worth suburb, Montey helped choose an inconspicuous spot to bore a small hole through the side of the house for the fiber optic line that would enable ...

"Sitting here [is] a truck full of what is stolen copper cable," says Todd Swenson, from AT&T's construction and engineering division. The jumble of cables and wires, about the size of a truck tire, ...

The ITU has begun the process of approving G.fast, a new standard that will allow for access speeds of 1-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) over copper telephone wires. G.fast (full name ITU-T G.9701) is ...

The former British Telecom organization reportedly has received a sizable bid for part of the copper landline cable it is retiring. “The traditional landline has served us well for generations, but it ...

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (CNS) - Copper wire thieves have left people who live in the Los Angeles County community of Hacienda Heights without landline phone service and internet access for months, ...

HAYWARD, Calif. – In an industrial yard off a highway east of San Francisco, AT&T workers crowd around cold, hard evidence of a growing problem. "Sitting here [is] a truck full of what is stolen ...