Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years ago, the last pay phones were disconnected in Rochester, New York. But a group of volunteers has started bringing a ...

Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast, ...

We’ve all been disconnected: dropped calls, voices cutting out, stalled texts. It can happen often in central Vermont, where the hilly rural landscape doesn’t lend itself to consistent cell reception.

Remember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were once everywhere—on many busy street corners, in bars and restaurants, even built into airliners’ seatbacks. Now, an engineer in Vermont ...

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont ...

Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast, ...