U.S. judge halts cell phone service fee for the poor in Georgia

[Wireless News]

By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge has blocked Georgia's plan to charge low-income residents $5 per month for cell phone service that currently is provided free of charge. The fee was set to take effect on January 31 and would have made Georgia the only the U.S. state to charge for the federally subsidized phone service. Tax money only pays for the phone service, not the actual phones, the nonprofit said. The cell phone industry trade association, called CTIA, sued Georgia earlier this year even before the new fee got final approval in October.

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