A growing cohort of parents are looking back to their own childhoods for a lower-tech alternative to smartphones.

Parents are taking drastic measures to cut down on screen time and monitor who their kids are talking to: They're installing landlines. A landline in the shared space of the home is replacing a smart ...

As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone ...

If you've been through one of the massive mobile network outages, then you've seen how it left you stranded without one of your most critical lines of access to the world for hours. If your smartphone ...

If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the ...

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab. Landlines had a good run. Even after cell ...

In a small town at the foothills of Mount Rainier, about 45 miles southeast of Seattle, the views are epic, but the cell reception is spotty. Susan Reiter has had a landline in her Enumclaw, Wash., ...

With weather warnings for snow and ice in place, Brits with landlines are being advised to take one step to help them stay ...

The co-founder and CEO of the Seattle startup has a "viral" hit on his hands as he throws an analog landline to parents ...