Spotlight Verizon wants to hang up on landlines, but some customers aren’t so sure Bill LukitschThe Minnesota Star Tribune Nov 1, 2026 Nov 1, 2026 0 × USA Today - News For more than a century, copper phone lines were a fixture in New Jersey homes. Now Verizon wants to retire what remains of that network. Prefer us on Google Learn More Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Steve Bradley’s mustard-yellow rotary telephone is about 50 years old. But it still works — and, sometimes, much better than his cellphone.kAm%9@F89 >@DE @7 $42?5:2[ |:??6D@E2[ :D 4@??64E65 E@ 9:89\DA665 7:36C\@AE:4 423=6D[ qC25=6J 2?5 9:D ?6:893@CD =:G:?8 :? E96 $E] rC@:I #:G6C '2==6J DE:== C6=J @? @=5\D49@@= 4@AA6C =2?5=:?6D E@ >2<6 42==D 2?5 DFC7 E96 :?E6C?6E]k^AmkAmxE’D :>A6C764E] qFE :E’D >@C6 C6=:23=6 E92? 46==F=2C :? 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Latest Headlines A 'space object' fell on a Minnesota farm. Here's what it could be Eric Lagatta, USA Today
Will Verizon get rid of its phone landline? For more than a century, copper phone lines were a fixture in New Jersey homes. Now Verizon wants to retire what remains of that network.
