Program offers free cell service for the poor 

Posted: 7:31 pm Tue, November 3, 2009
By Nicholas Sohr

More than 370,000 low-income households in Maryland are eligible to receive free, prepaid cellular phones and service funded by the Federal Communications Commission and TracFone Wireless Inc., the company announced Tuesday. The FCC, through its Lifeline program, began subsidizing telephone service for low-income families in 1986. The program was expanded in 1996 to include wireless service. “We ...