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Under a recent settlement approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Verizon can raise rates on residential and business landline phone service. Opposition was staunch and immediate.

There are actually people who don’t have cell phones in New Jersey and they rely on their landline phones to communicate. That’s the key reason a pair of lawmakers is sponsoring legislation trying to block phone companies from ending landline service for at least a year.

Phone companies in New Jersey eager to replace traditional copper lines with wireless systems will have to wait until the kinks are worked out if a bill proposed by Central Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Benson is passed.

New Jersey utility regulators and advocates for customers are opposing Verizon's plan not to bring wired phone lines back to one shore town badly battered by Superstorm Sandy.

The always wonderful Michele Pilenza filled in for Judi Franco this morning on the Dennis and Judi Show. She received the call last night request her attendance and was so surprised to hear the landline ring instead of her cell phone that she spilled her food and rushed over to the phone expecting it to be some sort of emergency...