WOSU News » landline http://wosu.org/2012/news Your All Day NPR News Station Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Your All Day NPR News Station WOSU News no Your All Day NPR News Station WOSU News » landline http://wosu.org/2012/news/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://wosu.org/2012/news Statehouse Bill Would Let Phone Companies Cut The Cord http://wosu.org/2012/news/2012/09/20/statehouse-bill-would-let-phone-companies-cut-the-cord/ http://wosu.org/2012/news/2012/09/20/statehouse-bill-would-let-phone-companies-cut-the-cord/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:44:47 +0000 Bill Cohen http://wosu.org/2012/news/?p=35467 More and more Ohioans are buying cellphones and giving up their traditional landline phones. That’s fine, says a coalition of consumer advocates, but they say a proposed new Ohio law goes too far. It says that phone companies in some areas should no longer be required to offer the traditional landline service.

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]]> http://wosu.org/2012/news/2012/09/20/statehouse-bill-would-let-phone-companies-cut-the-cord/feed/ 0 cell phone,landline,legislature,ohio,phone,statehouse,telephone Advocates for the elderly and the poor are denouncing a bill that would let phone companies discontinue landline service in parts of Ohio that offer competitive alternatives. Advocates for the elderly and the poor are denouncing a bill that would let phone companies discontinue landline service in parts of Ohio that offer competitive alternatives. WOSU News no 4:07