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Stay connected with Lifeline
Stay connected with Lifeline

September 12-18 is National Lifeline Awareness Week. Lifeline provides financial assistance to qualified telephone customers.

Ohio Utilities Protection Service (OUPS): "Call before you dig"
Ohio Utilities Protection Service (OUPS): "Call before you dig"

Call 8-1-1 or 1-800-362-2764 before you dig: It’s the law!

The telecommunications industry is a system of switches and lines that interconnect to provide communication between multiple parties. Today, the telecommunications industry includes local telephone service, long distance telephone service, wireless telephone service, paging service, Internet service, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and a wide array of other competitive products and services. All of these different methods of communication operate through networks forming a global telecommunications industry

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