Bell says it introduced a new phone-locking policy last year to deal with a surge in violent store robberies, device theft, ...

Imagine a day when it cost an arm and a leg to use the phone, especially for long-distance calls. Then imagine that buried deep within the telephone network infrastructure was a flaw -- a hole that ...

Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

Cincinnati Bell’s recent plans to transform itself into a technology and entertainment provider doesn’t mean it is hanging up on phones completely. Voice service will still be a part of the company’s ...

A 1900s advertisement from the New York Telephone Company touted the Bell Telephone as a way to maintain social relationships with people who were in quarantine due to illness. In May 2020, as much of ...

When Oklahoma students return for the school year, a new state law will ban cellphones, tablets, AirPods and all personal electronic devices from bell to bell. We spoke with two longtime teachers and ...