Satellite connectivity is heating up in 2025. Carriers, phone-makers and satellite networks are rushing to support texting ...

A lot of three-letter government agencies are looked upon with derision by much of the public. Some of that derision can be attributed to whether or not the current president is a member of the ...

But over those decades, the FCC and other regulators have enacted a host of consumer protection measures guaranteeing universal phone access ... where things like 911 work, and figuring out ...

A 911 call placed from a landline will display the phone number of the caller ... So help is on the way. No, The Federal Communications Commission chose 911 in 1967 because it was easy to remember ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more tech, travel, humor and fun facts all week long. It may be time to rethink landlines after all. Also referred to as POTS, an easy-to-remember acronym ...

Suicide is the most serious manifestation of a broader crisis. A recent separate study by the Substance Abuse and Mental ...

A West Virginia man failed to register as a sex offender and fled to Mexico, where he and his wife tried to buy a 7-year-old ...

The city-wide GMRS (General Mobile Radio System) repeater system is operational. GMRS is a neighborhood backup for cell phone ...

Coverage of the firefighters' battle to improve containment over the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the latest death count and victim frustration.

Life has changed quite drastically since the 1960s. While there has been much progress and many successes, there have also … ...

According to the most recent FCC registry, there are over 8,000 PSAPs in the United States. Many are known as primary PSAPs and more than 1,400 are known as secondary PSAPs. A primary PSAP is where ...