The companies that sell you internet access — think Comcast or Charter — want to sell you phone service, too. And guess what the phone guys want to sell you? Yup: internet access. This is good for you ...

Q: I wanted to add another telephone jack in my house, so I called the telephone company to set it up. The price they quoted was too much. I only want to install a jack on the opposite side of the ...

My first post here. I would like to use ethernet rather than wifi in our house and was looking into using the preinstalled phone jacks in various rooms around the house as a possible way to avoid ...

CHICAGO--When Cox Communications launched the first U.S. telephone service over a cable broadband connection several years ago, few believed it could ever seriously compete in the local phone market.

Q: We cut the cord more than a decade ago, but still have kudzu-like cables running from the telephone pole to our house and then all over the side of our house. How do we safely remove these without ...

NEW YORK — Phone companies are losing the high-speed Internet game. In the second quarter, the landline phone industry lost broadband subscribers for the first time, as cable companies continued to ...

AOL Time Warner's entry into voice service Thursday highlights the latest headache for regional phone companies, whose lock on the so-called local loop is looking increasingly precarious. Time Warner ...

The U.S. has fallen behind much of the Western world when it comes to phone, cable and Internet service. Americans actually pay much more for inferior service compared to their global counterparts. In ...