Towns Lose Funds As Phone Users Hang Up Landlines

dgrote@pressofac.com(dgrote-at-pressofac-dot-com), The Press of Atlantic City
Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:59pm

As more people get rid of their landline phones, local governments are seeing a little-known source of income disappear.

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