Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. T-Mobile USA ...

Free? Check. Convenient? Check. This little-known service is waiting to supplement your smartphone -- if you know how to take advantage of it. We’ve been talking a lot lately about how Project Fi can ...

If you’re buying home phone service from a traditional provider, you’re paying too much. Internet phone products sell service via your broadband connection at dirt-cheap rates. Here’s how three stack ...

Several years ago, Verizon and Straight Talk teamed up to introduce a wireless home phone base station, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling, voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling ...

Attention, OBi owners: The free ride is coming to an end. Damn. Let me back up for a minute: Over the past few years, lots of us have been using an inexpensive little device called OBi to tap into ...

Here is yet another reason to rid yourself of that antiquated home phone. gHome is offering a new service that will turn your Google Voice account into a home phone. But can't you already use Google ...

In this wacky world of telecom service, the highest ranked telephone service in the West isn’t a telephone company, according to the 2009 J.D. Power report on Residential Telephone Customer ...

Verizon Wireless now has a service, Verizon Wireless Home Phone Connect, which promises—with some legitimacy—that you'll "save on your home phone service" to the tune of $72 to $360 a year. But before ...

Home telephone, cable television, and internet started as separate services but evolved over the past two decades into a “triple play” of technologies that are often bundled by providers. That ...

Several years ago, Verizon and Straight Talk teamed up to introduce a wireless home phone base station, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling, voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling ...