The Federal Communications Commission gave AT&T Inc. an early Christmas present: permission to replace old copper home-phone lines with a new wireless landline technology.. The regulatory step is ...

AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.

AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.

AT&T plans to boost its number of fiber locations to 45 million by the end of 2029 but says it isn't profitable enough to build fiber to the other parts of its old landline phone and DSL networks ...

AT&T cautions, however, that “while the data doesn’t include customer names, there are often ways to find a name associated with a phone number using publicly available online tools.” ...

Currently, AT&T provides landline service in 21 states, excluding some in the northeast and northwest, according to USA Today. Retiring those landlines would affect all those states except California.