Up until the mid-1980s, connecting a computer to a phone line was tricky: many phone companies didn’t allow the connection of unlicensed equipment to their network, and even if they did, you might ...

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Barely a quarter of adults in the U.S. still have landline phones, and it may be getting harder for them to hold on. Companies like AT&T are looking to get out of the landline business altogether and ...