Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. T-Mobile USA ...

Ready to hang up on your land-line bills, but not quite ready to ditch your home phone? Turns out Verizon Wireless is quietly testing a new service, starting at $10 a month for current Verizon mobile ...

Several years ago, Verizon and Straight Talk teamed up to introduce a wireless home phone base station, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling, voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling ...

Free? Check. Convenient? Check. This little-known service is waiting to supplement your smartphone -- if you know how to take advantage of it. We’ve been talking a lot lately about how Project Fi can ...

If you’re buying home phone service from a traditional provider, you’re paying too much. Internet phone products sell service via your broadband connection at dirt-cheap rates. Here’s how three stack ...

Home telephone, cable television, and internet started as separate services but evolved over the past two decades into a “triple play” of technologies that are often bundled by providers. That ...

I recently tested the Ooma IP-based home telephone service, and was immediately intrigued with the Memo feature as I set up my voicemail. This Ooma feature essentially lets you record messages for ...

Google Voice won’t replace your home phone, but it will make managing multiple phone numbers much easier. Though it is as much a fixture in American households as the television and the microwave oven ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Until last month, I ...

In the early days of home internet, a phone line was the key to accessing the world wide web. A lot has changed since then, and many homeowners and internet providers have left the landline behind in ...