It's not stubbornness—these households share surprisingly practical reasons for holding on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For those too young to remember, the idea of a corded phone of any kind must sound strange. After all, most of us use smartphones these days.

Traditional phones may seem like relics in the iPhone era, but a recent AT&T cellular service outage had some landline lovers extolling their virtues. Lois Jackson of Mamaroneck, N.Y., using a ...