-= Hawk =- <Hawk@thispartisbogus.cfl.rr.com> wrote in
news:438al31sqhhflald6ta2ug3d3455k4mtq2@news-server:

> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:28:03 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com>
scribbled:
>
>>"P.Schuman" <pschuman_no_spam_me@interserv.com> wrote in
>>news:Vz45j.2844$Vq.1321@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com:
>>
>>> Looking at some of my old Sprint bills,
>>> it looks like a $39 plan had about $7.50 added in taxes = 20%
>>>
>>> So - what do you see on your bill as far as actual plan cost
vs
>>added
>>> taxes ?
>>>
>>>
>>Alltel in South Carolina, here. The $39 plan is over $47 after
>>the bureaucrats get their cuts. Every fiefdom wants some.
It's
>>obscene. There'll be more taxes, now with the additional
$25/mo
>>EVDO data added to that. $64/mo will total over $75.
>>
>>I justify it by not having an AT&T landline at home, which I
>>consider obsolete. I'll never figure why someone with a
>>SELLphone they're paying so much for has another drain on their
>>funds with a useless landline with even MORE stupid addon
>>charges, like "long distance", a throwback into the 1930's.
>>
>>People are stupid.
>
> 2004, hurricane Frances (or Jeanne, your choice) makes
landfall a few
> miles south of here. My neighbors couldn't get a cell phone
call out for
> four days or more. Towers down, overloaded circuits, joy! On
the other
> hand my 'obsolete', 'useless landline' a 'throwback to the
1930's'
> survived both hurricane strikes and we were able to make calls.
Hell, I
> called my insurance company and made our initial insurance
claim during
> the height of the storm. You go on staring dumbly at "No
Signal" I'll be
> talking to my family around the country... Anyone you want me
to call
> for you, Tech-boi?
>
>

In 1989, around midnight, I stood in the street outside a
friend's wrecked home we were staying at, staring up at the stars
through the center of the eye, talking on AMPS with my bagphone
to my friend's family in Ohio to tell them we were ok, but the
house had moved 3" away from the garage, cracking the wall. We'd
been huddled in the bathroom for hours wondering if it would ever
be over. Whole pine trees were flying horizontally down the
street, lit up by the falling electrical power system it took
months to rebuild.

I guess I was lucky the old bagphone still worked. Of course,
that was on 800 Mhz AMPS with real transmitters and a better
system than PCS.

My family is all dead. Do you think your landline can call them?

Larry
--
Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you
you're downloads threaten their networks......
.....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems?
http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v