MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) -- Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the ...

Normal phone wiring has two pairs. If you're keeping your regular line, or have DSL on it, the yellow and black wires are the pair to use for a secondary line throughout the house. The rebel ...

Question: There is a telephone line in my apartment that I can't use because the previous tenant still has the line active with a small local telephone company.

A Sears telephone hooked up to barbed wire—miles of which were already conveniently strung along fences—connected far-flung ranches in the recently settled American west.