Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

alarms to make the humble home phone even more relevant. We help you decide if you even still need a landline, and if the answer's yes, help you find the best home phone for your household. We at ...

Researchers everywhere count on telephone surveys to compile data, often relying on landline telephones. In the 2000s, as consumers canceled home telephone service, researchers worried that their ...

Richard Slater’s landline doesn’t work. “Hi this is Richard, the line is dead and has been dead five weeks.” These days, most of us would use our cell. But Slater is a disabled resident of a ...

That won’t happen when you have important work or personal calls on a landline. Do you still have a landline phone in your home? Let us know in the comments below.

Analog landline phones are pretty darn simple, especially compared with a modern cell phone. So what about the home gamer of decades past? Surely there were a few people out there putting phone ...

If you need a new cordless phone for your home, you'll want to buy the best you can get for your budget. Buy the wrong one and you’ll be left struggling to understand friends and family – that’s if ...

Now that many of us have broadband at home the fact that VoIP landline phones are being rolled out seems sensible. This is because you’ll basically be using the internet to connect your calls in ...

With more of us working from home these days you might get more use out of it than you think. Being a DECT-standard model, the phone also seems to work with non-BT landline providers too ...