And not all landlines use copper phone lines. Increasingly, companies are piggybacking their phone systems on their internet connections, a service called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP.

OTTAWA--Starting next February, Canada's largest telephone companies, led by BCE and Telus, must provide smaller rivals with wholesale access to their fiber-optic networks in a bid to foster ...

AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has ...

Phone companies have the technology to block unwanted calls, but some haven’t prioritized doing so.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The celeb phone companies remind me, a little, of the ISP that David Bowie launched in 1998, which for $19.95 a month offered “full uncensored” internet ...

For much of the 20th century, the country’s sole provider of phone, telegraph, and radio services was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company — known today as AT&T. To ensure connectivity in ...

In an attempt to boost broadband competition, Canada's telecom regulator is forcing large phone companies to open their fiber networks to competitors. Smaller companies will be allowed to buy ...

Phone companies have long provided much slower DSL internet, but now Brightspeed is building a fiber optic network. They've finished the build out in Greeneville and are 75 percent of the way ...