Phone companies are looking to drop traditional landline service. What's at stake if that happens and who is affected?

California's telephone regulator, desperate for both relevance and redemption, has opened a vast investigation into sunsetting landline telephone service. Its true purpose is neither obvious nor ...

The bottom line, though, is that a majority of California customers have at most two choices for comparable home telephone service: the local phone company and the local cable company.

Phone companies’ unlisted-numbers fees are unjustifiable AT&T charges customers $1.75 a month to keep their number under wraps. A decade ago, the company charged 28 cents a month for the same ...

AT&T wants to be done with landline telephone services in California. The phone company is petitioning the California Public Utilities Commission to withdraw its designation as a Carrier of Las… ...

AT&T said it plans to eliminate traditional phone landline service in 20 of its 21 states by 2029, but not in California.

The rule will require home insurers to offer coverage in high-risk areas—but can pass on the cost of reinsurance to policyholders.

California defeats bill to force companies to decrypt phone data The California assemblyman said encryption is "risking our national security," but would nevertheless tweet from his encrypted iPhone.

A decision by a California regulatory judge to reject a proposal by AT&T would mean landlines would still be available.

The telephone companies were not required to spend subsidy money on their California networks and the costs they claimed to have incurred might not be legitimate, the report said.