Hello,
I agree with you. I really hate talking to people whose cell phone or cordless phone fades in and out.
I also think that you can't beat landlines in an emergency.
Colleen Roth
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]>
,to3 [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:46 pm
Subject: Re: Obama phones and the FCC
>
>
> I don't ever intend to give up my landline phone; cell phones aren't all
> that reliable, and the sound quality stinks for the most part. To me,
> having kids in the house is all the more reason to have a landline.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 15:56
> Subject: Re: Obama phones and the FCC
>
>
> > Most people I know with 2 cell providers it's because they have a personal
> > phone and a work phone. I would never have a land line phone if cell
> > phones
> > worked in this house, and now with a little one around I suppose it's nice
> > for emergencies but I still find it one of the biggest annoyances since it
> > never is for me, and never rings at a convenient time. I much prefer
> > people
> > contact me in a way I have control over like email or something because as
> > little as the phone rings it never once has ever been a convenient time.
> > At
> > least the cell I can put them in voice mail and not listen to it ring for
> > long.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "COLLEEN ROTH" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: Obama phones and the FCC
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I can see that some people benefit from Lifeline and in some circustances
> >> a cellphone.
> >> I have noticed, however, that some people end up having a cell phone from
> >> more than one provider.
> >> Maybe we should just encourage more landline phones so they would benefit
> >> the whole family when children are left alone if a mom just has a cell
> >> phone.
> >> Colleen Roth
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
@> @>@> 1to#c [log in to unmask]
> >> Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:57 pm
> >> Subject: Re: Fw: Obama phones and the FCC
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> track phone? more like crack phone hahahahahah
> >>>
> >>> regards
> >>> Colin
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Zach Shifflett" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:54 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: Fw: Obama phones and the FCC
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> >I shouldn't even respond to this message, as I don't want to feed
> >>> > trolls and spark debate on the list. However, this being a ham hobby
> >>> > list, I'm not really sure how or why this post would be applicable
> >>> > here.
> >>> > I'm not making a political statement here, or saying I'm on one side
> >>> > or the other of this particular issue, but we're all just here to talk
> >>> > radio, blindness issues, and generally rag chew. This seems, at least
> >>> > to me, to be a bit devisive.
> >>> > Just my two cents.
> >>> > Zach, KK4RUZ
> >>> >
> >>> > On 6/19/13, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>> >> =20
> >>> >> text of forwarded message follows:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> From: Hand In Hand <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> SOURCE: =
> >>> >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343377/I-dont-care-Hidden-camera=
> >>> >> comcatches-wireless-company-employees-passing-Obama-phones-people-say-theyl=
> >>> >> l-sell-drugs-shoes-handbags-spending-cash.html
> >>> >>
> >>> >> =20
> >>> >> =20
> >>> >> Tuesday, Jun 18 201312PM 80=B0F3PMBLEHB=B0F 5-Day Forecast
> >>> >> EXCLUSIVE: Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> out 'Obama phones' to people who say they'll SELL them for drugs,
> >>> >> shoes,
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> handbags and spending cash=20
> >>> >> a.. The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying =
> >>> >> customers=20
> >>> >> b.. The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is =
> >>> >> billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5
> >>> >> BILLION =
> >>> >> to date=20
> >>> >> c.. One company told MailOnline it will fire a salesperson who =
> >>> >> laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone to
> >>> >> buy
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> shoes=20
> >>> >> d.. Conservative firebrand James O'Keefe sent undercover actors
> >>> >> to
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> pose as 'Obama phone' seekers aiming to sell the goods; no one turned
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> them down=20
> >>> >> e.. Legislation in Congress would remove the cell phone component
> >>> >> of
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only land lines until
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> 2008=20
> >>> >> By David Martosko In Washington
> >>> >> PUBLISHEDCC02:01 EST, 18 June 2013| UPDATEDCC07:22 EST, 18 June
> >>> >> 2013
> >>> >> =20
> >>> >> 'If you're interested in learning — wanting to know how much the =
> >>> >> phone's worth, [I] recommend you go to any pawn shop1' this Stand Up
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> Wireless worker told conservative activist James O'Keefe's undercover
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> plant. 'They'll be more than happy to tell you, OK"'
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two =
> >>> >> corporate distributors of free cell phones handing out the mobile =
> >>> >> devices to people who have promised to sell them for drug money, to
> >>> >> buy =
> >>> >> shoes and handbags, to pay off their bills, or just for extra
> >>> >> spending
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> cash.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The 'Obama phone1' which made its ignominious YouTube debut outside
> >>> >> a =
> >>> >> Cleveland, Ohio presidential campaign event last September, is a
> >>> >> project
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> of the Federal Communications Commission's 'Lifeline' program, which
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> makes land line and mobile phones available to Americans who meet =
> >>> >> low-income requirements.
> >>> >> Lifeline was a $2.19 billion program in 2012.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Recipients most commonly demonstrate their need by flashing an =
> >>> >> Electronic Benefits Transfer card to verify their eligibility for =
> >>> >> welfare payments, or by bringing tax statements to a phone
> >>> >> providerdd=20
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The phones' legitimate purposes include poverty-level job
> >>> >> applicants' =
> >>> >> use as contact numbers for job interviews and emergency contacts for
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> children of single parents.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> But when James O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas is a perennial thorn
> >>> >> in =
> >>> >> the side of progressive policymakers, sent an undercover actor into a
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> Stand Up Wireless location in Philadelphia, the man's stated purpose
> >>> >> was
> >>> >> =
> >>> >> to buy drugs.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 'Once you guys give me this phone, it's my phone"' he asked an =
> >>> >> employee inside a Philadelphia brick-and-mortal Stand Up Wireless =
> >>> >> location. 'I can, like, sell it and stuff"'
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 'Whatever you want to do with x1' the worker replied.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 'So I'm [going to] get some money for heroin1' he offered.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The employee coolly responded, 'Hey, I don't judge.'
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> text of forwarded message ends:
> >>> >>
> >>
> >
|
