Authorities hope a quarter-million-dollar reward will shake loose a tipster to lead them to the vandals who severed underground fiber-optic cables, cutting off phone service for tens of thousands of ...

Thousands of abandoned telephone cables throughout the US are likely leaching toxic lead into American soil and waterways, an extensive new report by The Wall Street Journal has revealed. These leaded ...

ORANGE, Texas — A man from Orange is facing felony charges after he allegedly caused damage that disrupted a public utility. It happened on Saturday, February 12. Orange Police officers responded to a ...

CHICAGO--When Cox Communications launched the first U.S. telephone service over a cable broadband connection several years ago, few believed it could ever seriously compete in the local phone market.

FARGO - A man convicted of cutting phone cables under Fargo in 1995, causing $1 million in damage and interrupting phone service for 20,000 people in the process, is now facing an arson charge in ...

NEW YORK — Your TV provider may soon become your phone company. Which seems only fair, because your phone company also wants to be your TV provider. In the next few months, cable giant Comcast will ...

Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the ...

Now is the perfect time to call your cable, internet or phone company to request a lower monthly bill. (Photo: Getty) Paying bills may be one of life’s most mundane and least fulfilling chores, but we ...

A FIBER-OPTIC cable used by AT&T; for trans-Atlantic phone calls failed Saturday. AT&T; spokesman Herb Linnen said the branch of the TAT-8 cable to Britain failed about 12:50 a.m., but phone service ...