Two programs for older adults in Lake County launched earlier this year by Lifeline, Inc. and the Lake County commissioners continue to serve in providing security and promoting social connection, ...

A new report by INFORM, Calling All Cell Phones: Collection, Reuse and Recycling Programs in the US, reveals that leading cell phone collection programs have recovered less than 1 percent of phones ...

Enforcement letters going to more than 82,000 Ohioans this month mark the latest step in a crackdown on abuse of a federal program that provides free cellphone service to low-income individuals. The ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has expanded the Lifeline phone program to give low-income residents up to $19 monthly regardless of immigration status, removing the Social Security number requirement.

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, an engineer from Motorola, made the first-ever call on a mobile phone to another engineer at a telecommunications rival company. Fifty years later, the mobile phone is ...

Smartphones aren’t cheap, but for many of us, they’ve become essential. We use them for work, communication, information, entertainment, and even paying bills. If you need a smartphone and a wireless ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to a Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes phone and internet services in underserved parts of the country. Subscribe ...

MARSHALL - Cynthia Wheeler is a Marshall resident and Lifeline program participant who said she uses the phone provided to her by Safelink Wireless when the bills for her regular cell phone are too ...

Paying out of pocket for a phone — even an economical one — isn’t always possible. Technology is expensive! And seniors, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official ...