10am
For the past few years, AT&T and Verizon have been attempting to get their customers to abandon landlines and move to phones based on internet service. Their goal is to finalize such a transition by 2020. This proposal has met with opposition, however, from those who say that copper-based landlines are still a necessity for millions of Americans. This hour, we look at the issue of disappearing landlines, in Ohio and across the nation.
Guests
- Michael R. Smalz, Senior Attorney, Ohio Poverty Law Center
- Sherry Lichtenberg, principal researcher for telecommunications at the National Regulatory Research Institute
- Jon Brodkin, Senior IT Reporter at ArsTechnica