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Title: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: thundley4 on July 28, 2010, 04:57:44 PM
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/Home.aspx

Let the people that work pay for it.  Oh wait, never mind.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: rich_t on July 28, 2010, 05:22:02 PM
 :thatsright:
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: vesta111 on July 28, 2010, 05:39:35 PM
Excuse me ,I decided to follow the links and found that this online site wants your #ss. number.      This has to be a SCAM.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: rich_t on July 28, 2010, 06:04:57 PM
Excuse me ,I decided to follow the links and found that this online site wants your #ss. number.      This has to be a SCAM.

It is a scam, but it is also something the government actually funds:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356925,00.asp
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: vesta111 on July 28, 2010, 06:14:13 PM
It is a scam, but it is also something the government actually funds:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356925,00.asp

I can see how this seems to make sense but why are they asking for you to put online your ##SS. number and then the government tells you not to give that number out to anyone.?

If this is a federal program why is it not available in All states.?
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: rich_t on July 28, 2010, 06:21:02 PM
I can see how this seems to make sense but why are they asking for you to put online your ##SS. number and then the government tells you not to give that number out to anyone.?

If this is a federal program why is it not available in All states.?

Why does a bank ask for your SS# when you open an account?

Are you under the impression that all federal laws apply equally to all states?

Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: NHSparky on July 28, 2010, 07:37:55 PM
Newsflash, vesta--it IS real.  Your tax dollars at work.

Ah, but if we protest this, Cujo will be along any second to call us all racists.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: thundley4 on July 28, 2010, 07:55:01 PM
Newsflash, vesta--it IS real.  Your tax dollars at work.

Ah, but if we protest this, Cujo will be along any second to call us all racists.

I knew i was real when I posted it since I've seen the TV commercials for months now.  Vestanumbers =  :mental:
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: NHSparky on July 28, 2010, 07:58:58 PM
I knew i was real when I posted it since I've seen the TV commercials for months now.  Vestanumbers =  :mental:

Granted, it's not the 900 minute plan.  I just checked for NH, and it's a phone with about 80 minutes a month.  Not a huge amount, but then again, when I first got a cell phone in 1996, I was paying nearly $100/month for that many minutes, and the phone was NOT free, didn't have a camera, was an analog, and you got about 4 hours out of one charge standby, or about 50 minutes talking.

Woo-hoo...
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: thundley4 on July 28, 2010, 08:15:06 PM
Granted, it's not the 900 minute plan.  I just checked for NH, and it's a phone with about 80 minutes a month.  Not a huge amount, but then again, when I first got a cell phone in 1996, I was paying nearly $100/month for that many minutes, and the phone was NOT free, didn't have a camera, was an analog, and you got about 4 hours out of one charge standby, or about 50 minutes talking.

Woo-hoo...

I use less than 60 minutes/month, which is why I use a Tracfone.  For two phones we pay less than $60/mo.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: Randy on July 31, 2010, 03:32:15 PM
We ditched the Phone Company and opted out on Vonage too  :-) We went straight cell on a 4 lines for $100 unlimited everything.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: Chris_ on July 31, 2010, 03:50:56 PM
I'm tempted to go with Magic Jack just because it's cheap.  I'll check out Vonage.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: NHSparky on July 31, 2010, 03:57:13 PM
I'm tempted to go with Magic Jack just because it's cheap.  I'll check out Vonage.

Do NOT do Magic Jack.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: Chris_ on July 31, 2010, 03:58:47 PM
When Vonage says X number of minutes, is that per month?
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: docstew on August 02, 2010, 03:05:11 PM
Do NOT do Magic Jack.

what's wrong with magic jack?  I was going to take one on my next deployment.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: NHSparky on August 02, 2010, 06:14:06 PM
what's wrong with magic jack?  I was going to take one on my next deployment.

Horrible customer service--charges for multiple years, and they have no "live" help...just a chat.

Do a Google.  Not pretty.
Title: Re: Get Your Free Cell Phone.
Post by: Chris_ on August 02, 2010, 06:18:06 PM
I checked out Vonage's cheap-ass plan.  $10 a month for 200 minutes, $16 and some change after all the taxes and fees get tacked on.  They claim you can take it with you but I didn't look into how that would work.

I've been on the other end of a few Vonage calls or what I assumed was some kind of IP telephony.  Very, very poor quality, it was constantly cutting in and out and very choppy.  I chalked that up to the person on the other end of the phone eating up bandwidth doing something else at the time.  My basic cable plan runs at 3Mbps and handles audio pretty well.