The first telephone provided for public use was installed at the New Haven office of the Connecticut Telephone Company on June 1, 1880. In Great Britain, "Call Office Suites" were established in 1882 by the National Telephone Company at the Stock...

A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, (or telephone box in Ireland and the United Kingdom) is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience. Such a booth usually has a door to provide privacy and a window to...

European and Asian wireless penetration levels for years have been well ahead of those in the United States. Mobile wireless technology has won over customers worldwide by providing a new level of communications freedom and convenience that is dramatically changing the way modern...

The red public telephone kiosks being replaced by British Telecom are in great demand among international collectors. Refurbished booths are selling at high prices. Other popular British collectibles include the black taxicab, Mini car and red bus. BRITAIN is notoriously good at selling...

Last night, a livery cab crawled down Grand Street, gingerly avoiding the Chuck Taylor'd toes of a hipster horde numbering in the high hundreds that had congregated outside Deitch Projects to see Swoon's first solo show. The driver rolled down his window, bemused. "What's going...

A roadside bombing blamed on the Tamil Tigers killed a Sri Lankan government minister Tuesday in an attack likely to intensify the civil war already raging across this Indian Ocean island nation.President Mahinda Rajapaksa condemned the assassination as proof of the rebel group's "continued commitment...