Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AT&T plans to eliminate its traditional landline phone service across nearly all U.S. states in its service area by 2029, ...

MANTOLOKING, N.J. -- Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the rest of the ...

HANOVER TOWNSHIP (KDKA) -- You could get $50,000 if you know who is stealing copper telephone cables in Washington and Lawrence Counties. Verizon is offering the reward because it says the thefts are ...

SMITH TOWNSHIP (KDKA) -- You could get $50,000 if you know who is stealing copper telephone cables in Washington and Lawrence Counties. Verizon is offering the reward because it says the thefts are a ...

In this Friday, May 31, 2013 photo, Robert Post, 85, talks to The Associated Press about his home, in Mantoloking, N.J., which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy last year. Post has a pacemaker that ...

New technology can blast gigabit-per-second data speeds across age-old twisted-pair copper telephone cables—at least at distances from a telephone pole to a house, says Alcatel-Lucent. In theory, such ...

In this Friday, May 31, 2013 photo, Robert Post, 85, walks down the stairs in his home, in Mantoloking, N.J., which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy last year. Post has a pacemaker that needs to be ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Alabama has picked up an unusual distinction: AT&T says the state now leads the nation in the theft of copper telephone cable. As the company worked Wednesday to replace a phone ...

A $50,000 reward is being offered by Verizon for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person responsible for the theft of copper telephone cable in Washington County. Since Jan. 29 ...

It's a crime that goes up when the economy goes down. AT&T says thieves in Alabama have stolen more copper telephone cable than any other place in the country. Copper's value is closing in on $3 a ...