In the 2000s, as consumers canceled home telephone service, researchers worried that their surveys might miss people who had given up landlines. And that omission might skew the surveys. The CDC was ...

AT&T said it plans to eliminate traditional phone landline service in 20 of its 21 states by 2029.

AT&T provides traditional landline service in 21 states, including Alabama, according to a report in USA Today. The decision to end landline service will affect all but one state, California ...

Telecommunications giant AT&T, stymied last year by regulators in its bid to drop land-line service to California customers, ...

The new service can be used with an existing landline phone that plugs into a jack, and it connects to AT&T's wireless network as an alternative. It costs $45 a month.

AT&T has said it won't cut off phone service immediately, but ending the COLR obligation would make it easier for AT&T to drop its phone lines later on.

Many copper users who don't get fiber will be able to use 5G-based home broadband with AT&T Internet Air and wireless phone service with AT&T Phone-Advanced.