The Federal Communications Commission gave AT&T an early Christmas present: permission to replace old copper home-phone lines with a new wireless landline technology. The regulatory step is narrow ...
AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.
Newer home phone lines, like AT&T Phone, rely on Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, which connects phones via the internet rather than a wire. Unlike old copper lines, these newer options can give ...