Free Cell Phone service
 

Real Deal - Real Deal: Free cell phone

The free phones are paid for with money from OUR phone bills. That little charge called the "USF", the universal service fee, and who's eligible. If you get food stamps? Fuel Assistance? Mass Health? If you're part of many of the states programs for low-income families, you are also eligible for discounted landlines or free cells.

I wouldn't mind paying for free cellphones or land lines for the elderly or disabled.

To give healthy people free cellphones makes me sick.
Why not just give them a newspaper, so that they can check out the
Help Wanted ads.

What is next, free cable TV & WiFi at home ???

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At this rate America will be another Castro Cuba: driving old cars and left-over technology from BEFORE the socialist revolution.

Hey, how 'bout that CRA!! How'd that work out???


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Another Reagan Program that continues to saddle the consumer and probably will for the rest of our lives...

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The universal service fee (Lifeline) began in 1984.. here are the facts if interested...

The FCC's Universal Service Support Mechanisms

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That was passed by a heavily Democrat-dominated Congress, was it not??



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without regard for your laziness and assumptions the 98th Congress was Republican in Senate, Dem in House.. led by Ronnie.. no excuses here he signed it... I know it is a hard pill to swallow, but it happens.

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So, whoever said Ronnie was God, anyway!!!???


:wha:


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Hard to believe isn't it, but you said you were Jesus.. so what does god have to do with it..

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COMMENCE BACKPEDALLING!

Regardless of who put this into effect or when, it needs to stop. This is wrong. Period.
Sooner or later, those who back the republiccans blindly while bashing the Dems for anything bad that happens (and vice-versa) need to grow up. There is no difference between these "two groups". Thet are more somilar to the AFC and NFC than anything.

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The facts don't seem to support the article. The article provides a link to this page:

Link Up & Lifeline - What Consumers Should Know

"Link Up: Link Up will pay a 50% discount or up to a maximum of $30.00 of an eligible consumers home telephone installation fees. An additional discount may apply to residents of federally recognized tribal lands.

"Lifeline: A consumer can save between $16.00 and $18.39 on their basic service monthly bill. These benefits apply to basic local telephone service charges that are purchased as measured service (including local usage), or as flat rate service."

Unless the telephone companies are also giving these people discounts that are not available to the rest of us, it's hard to imagine how they get free cell phones or landline phones out of these savings.