When you first selected your company’s business phone system, you were likely offered one of two choices: a business VoIP system or a traditional landline-based system, also known as a plain old ...

Major telecommunications carriers are phasing out “POTS” — the copper-wire, analog “plain old telephone system” many businesses still use. And with CDC data showing that only about 23 percent of U.S.

Learn how to get a free business phone number, compare providers, understand limitations, and decide when to upgrade to a ...

Parents looking back to their own childhoods are ringing up the landline, the old-school handsets so rare parents have to coach kids how to use them.

Before 5G took off in 2019, the old 4G LTE standard was the primary method for transmitting data on phones. Today, some of the best 5G smartphones are readily available. Still, these devices don't ...

A Seattle startup is reviving the landline — without screens, apps, or AI — and parents can’t buy them fast enough. In this Uncommon Thinkers episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Tin Can CEO Chet ...

Why settle for an ancient, analog PBX? The top voice over IP (VoIP) services we've tested deliver enterprise-grade phone system features for a small-business-friendly price. A voice over IP (VoIP) ...

Still got your cordless phone? It could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world when there's a massive mobile outage. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

In a way, parents might see these new options as going back in time to the way they chatted before Snapchat, or talked before ...

A tech founder, Cat Goetze, has transformed her desire for less screen time into a thriving business, Physical Phones. Her retro-styled Bluetooth handsets, mimicking traditional landlines, have ...

To find companions in Fallout: New Vegas, you first have to be lucky enough to run into them, and then you must figure out ...