Nancy VanCleve’s landline is her lifeline. She knows it’s old-fashioned, but she has no interest in a cell phone.

But Slater is a disabled resident of a retirement home, and says his old flip phone has terrible reception in his room. “A lot of contacts with doctors and hospitals,” Slater said. Slater says the ...

FILE - A landline phone (Photo by Bernd Weißbrod/picture alliance via Getty Images) If you’ve ever wondered how many people still keep a landline phone in their home, the U.S. Centers for ...

Click here for the original audio. You might think of a landline as a dusty antique of the past made obsolete by cell phones and their easy portability. But many people still hold onto their home ...

As a result, 40% of us have stopped using a landline phone altogether ... 27% of us said we were using it less. One common problem is calls from scammers and salesmen. Nearly a quarter of us ...

It seems like the landline phone is going the way of the dinosaur, and could face extinction at some point. According to data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, 72.6% of adults ...

But now they're having landline service problems again ... ago I just checked it and there's no dial tone or nothing on the phones," Beard added. They say they're left with more questions ...