Some
people, particularly seniors like myself, rely on inexpensive
landline service as either a single source of communications or as a
backup in case of cell phone failure, a not uncommon occurrence. If
some in the Ohio legislature, as a
favor to big cell phone companies,
have their way, that option could been taken away. Call
or message Rep. Cliff Rosenberger and/or Sen Bob Peterson.
http://www.ohiohouse.gov/cliff-rosenberger/contact
Phone(614)
466-3506; http://www.ohiosenate.gov/peterson/contact
,
(614)
466-8156
Paul
Hunter
More
than 130 years after the first residential phone line was installed,
telecom companies are pressing to be freed from the obligation of
providing low-cost fixed-line telephone service to homes, a move
critics say will leave Americans with less reliable or more expensive
options.
…..........The
push from the telecom industry is forcing policymakers to re-examine
what has long been a basic guarantee of the government — that every
American home should have access to a phone, along with other
utilities such as water or electricity............
Traditional
boring telephone service is regulated as a utility — a
guaranteed-to-be-available service for any American who wants it.
Hundreds of millions of Americans do, especially in rural areas where
America’s cell phone love affair is tempered by dreadful reception,
especially in mountainous areas. Oh, and the nearest cable company is
ten miles away.
From
the Columbus Dispatch
Kasich will veto sweeping agriculture bill if landline requirement isn't kept
If
the legislature doesn’t keep a requirement that phone companies
must provide landlines, Gov John Kasich will veto House Bill 490, one
of his cabinet directors testified today.
Compiled
by Paul Hunter
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