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Eliminating Landline Telephone Service In Portions Of Ohio

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published September 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM EDT

Advocates for the poor and elderly say a plan to eliminate landline telephone service in parts of the state next year is not being properly studied.A bill in the Ohio Legislature would lift a requirement that phone companies provide basic service to all residents in areas utility regulators deem competitive. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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