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There's a lady who works for us and I guess her daughter doesn't have a phone. I hear all the time "I keep telling her to get one of those free phones from the gov't!" I just roll my eyes. My SIL gets every kind of welfare under the sun and gives her free phone to her teenage son to use. Again, I have to just roll my eyes.
I also don't believe that voice calls are free. Some people don't have smart phones still and just have a basic talk plan...like my grandparents. They still have to pay for their service. I don't see how it's such a big expense that the carrier is taking a loss for it, either.
A simple search on the Sprint website tells me that for 200 anytime minutes, it costs $30/mo plus taxes and fees. You can add messaging and data services after that but it's not required. How is that free? But how is the carrier taking a loss on that? I'm sure by now, the cost of building the network has already been paid for many times over, so any additional voice customers are just pure profit.
I see no reason the poor should get free phones. However, there are some non-profits that give out phones and basic service to single mothers, that I support (and it's done by a non-profit so it's not taxpayer money being used anyway).
I can always predict what the new threads on here are going to be. I just watch Fox News, and then about an hour later .. voila.
Actually, they run TV advertisements here (maybe they are public service announcements) about these "free phones" pretty regularly where I live. Gives a number to call, wh/ I always giggle about, since it hit me as incongruous that they are advertising to folks who supposedly can't make a call since they don't have a phone, lol.
Give 'em NOTHING. Resurect payphones an put one at every bus stop or liquor store.
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