Such has been the success of the mobile phone that in many places they have removed the need for wired connections, for example where this is being written the old copper connection can only be ...

Rotary dial phones have a certain romantic charm about them; something never quite captured in the post-Touch Tone era. With landline phone services less popular than ever, these old workhorses ...

They lift a box to reveal a rotary ... "dial" the number on the paper. They examined the numbers and the dial, trying to ...