Ohio regulators weighing end to AT&T's low-income phone plan

COLUMBUS — Ohio utility regulators are accepting comments on AT&T's proposal to drop federal Lifeline phone service.A number of advocacy groups for more than 10,000 low-income Ohioans customers helped by the program are urging the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reject AT&T's plan . Those include the NAACP, AARP and the Ohio Poverty Law Center.Lifeline offers a credit that covers a quarter of the $36 average monthly cost of a landline telephone.Advocates argue the program ke