Long before we all had smartphones in our pockets and Bluetooth headphones on our ears, landline phones with coiled cords ...

“OK, good. Hang on.” Supervising the tête-à-tête was her mother, Jordyne Wu, who had the landline phone installed in their Chestnut Hill home in December as a way to teach her children ...

That's because it doesn't matter whether you have a landline with a cordless phone, or grandma's old phone on the wall. Either way, phone companies are phasing them out. Slater's friend Linda ...