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Coalition to FCC: We Need a Payphone Bailout

From the Consumer-Action.org web site:

“In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Consumer Action and National Consumers League expressed support for two pending petitions from the American Public Communications Council (APCC) regarding payphones.
“The National Consumers League and Consumer Action believe that payphones continue to play an important role in providing a needed communications link for millions of consumers and workers. It has come to our attention that the Commission is currently considering two petitions submitted by the American Public Communications Council (APCC) that would halt the imminent disappearance of the nation’s payphone infrastructure and preserve the critical functionality that these telephones provide to consumers, particularly those with lower incomes.”

Read the full text of this letter at Consumer-Action.org.

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