ST. LOUIS — Our Vintage KSDK goes back 69 years to the day long distance calling took a huge leap forward. On April 16, 1955, St. Louis Mayor Raymond Tucker placed a call to the mayor of San Francisco ...

Officials with the U.S. Department of the Treasury have decided to stop collecting some telephone taxes on long-distance calls. That means consumers could split a refund totaling about $15 billion.

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

Internet telephony service provider Jajah introduced a service Monday that bypasses some operators’ high long-distance and international charges by providing subscribers with a unique local number for ...

When was the last time you stood in a phone booth with a pile of quarters, ready to make a long-distance call? Hardly anyone does that anymore. It's part of America's vanishing past. Most users choose ...

WASHINGTON — Businesses and individuals continue to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes each year on some long-distance telephone calls even though three federal courts say the levy is ...

Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le ...

Telephone companies, like companies in every industry, have been involved in “scams” of one sort or another. Such scams can be undertaken to simply enhance the company’s bottom-line or serve a ...