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Illinois phone customers should pay 8 cents more a month for a program that provides the deaf with access to phone lines, an aide to state utility regulators recommended Friday. Customers currently pay 3 cents a month, but Illinois Commerce Commission hearing examiner Barbara Rogers recommended raising that to 11 cents. The money goes to the Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp., which provides free computers, called Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf (TDDs), to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
