02.06.17 Politics FCC stops defending caps on prison phone call rates It could be harder for inmates to communicate with the outside world. By J. Fingas, 02.06.17 save Save share
04.12.16 04.12.16 in Gadgetry Verizon policy: switch from copper to fiber, or no fix for you A leak shows that Verizon refuses to fix copper landlines if you won't upgrade to fiber. By J. Fingas, 04.12.16 save Save share View
08.06.15 08.06.15 Phone companies ditching copper wires will have to follow the rules The FCC has some new rules for phone companies trying to retire their copper phone networks By S. Buckley, 08.06.15 save Save share View
05.23.14 05.23.14 Wikileaks: US government recording every call from Afghanistan When The Intercept revealed mass NSA "full-take" call recording in the Bahamas and other nations,... By S. Dent, 05.23.14 save Save share View
05.05.14 05.05.14 AT&T's new fiber optic phone network could delay disaster response AT&T wants to put its old copper-based telephone networks to rest and start testing its next-g... By M. Moon, 05.05.14 save Save share View
01.31.14 01.31.14 US phone companies to explore replacing all phone numbers with IP addresses Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is nothing new, of course, but so far it's been regarded merely as an add-on... By S. Sakr, 01.31.14 save Save share View
04.03.13 04.03.13 FTC reveals $50,000 Robocall Challenge winners, alarms Rachel from card services (video) The FTC has managed to find two non-violent solutions to its Robocall Challenge, aimed at blocking... By S. Dent, 04.03.13 save Save share View
03.20.13 03.20.13 AT&T Wireless Home Phone goes prepaid, emulates landlines on demand We can't say that most attempts to replicate the landline experience with a wireless link have pan... By J. Fingas, 03.20.13 save Save share View
03.12.13 03.12.13 France investigates Skype after it doesn't register as a telecom provider (update: Skype response) You can't completely pigeonhole Skype when it serves both as a partial substitute for traditional... By J. Fingas, 03.12.13 save Save share View
