Years of tradition will soon come to an end in Maryland as Verizon plans to discontinue its weather and time services.
"The last telephone-based time and weather services in the Unites States are getting the ax, telephone company officials say.
Verizon says its telephone dial-in weather and time services in the Washington, D.C., and Maryland area codes -- the last such surviving services in the nation -- will end this summer.
Callers to the weather line are hearing a terse announcement: "Effective June 1, 2011, Verizon will no longer offer time-of-day and weather forecast services."
A spokeswoman for Verizon said the end of call-in services, with a history going back to the days of rotary dial telephones in the 1930s, has been coming for a long time."
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