FORT PIERRE, S.D. -- Johnny Smith has a new digital cell phone, but he relies on an older, analog bag phone when he travels the wide-open spaces in the western part of the state to line up cattle for ...

The Federal Communications Commission will let wireless carriers phase out service to analog cell phones in the next five years, it ruled Friday. About 20 million people in the United States still use ...

More than 1 million analog cell phone users will lose service – including the ability to dial 911 – when service providers switch to entirely all digital signals in two weeks, Durham police warned.

Regulators are poised to send the crackling and bulky analog cell phone to the scrap heap next February, denying a last-ditch appeal from a business group. The shutdown of analog wireless networks Feb ...

This weekend may finally be the perfect time to drag Grandma into your local mobile phone shop to update that brick she keeps in her purse along with the Circus Peanuts. Come Monday, the FCC is ...

A study in Sweden has found that 10-year users of analog mobile phones have about twice as much chance of developing acoustic neuroma than the average person. The acoustic neuroma are benign tumors on ...

How does the internet actually work? It can be difficult to visualize a system that includes a giant worldwide network, millions of servers, and billions of packets flying around. A group of students ...

You are likely to encounter three main types of digital telephone systems in the world of business today. A fixed digital telephone system is connected to the main telephone network via cables.

‘We’ve been educating our clients on the discontinuation of the analog phone lines, and encouraging them to move to cloud fax, so they won’t have interrupted service,’ Josh Justice, founder, owner & ...