What's that you say sonny?
By 1985, she'd already been renting the phone for 20-odd years ... why not at that point (or even sometime during the 20 years since) just GIVE her the darn thing? She'd already paid MANY times its worth, even in 1985.
Sheesh.
Bless her heart.
Es strogen?
yes, I remember that for most of my childhood my parents rented the harvest gold rotary wall phone that we had:)
Heck I still remember our family party line number. Two longs and a short.
Sounds to me like she knew exactly what she was doing.
"I'm outraged," Gordon said. "It made me so mad. It's ridiculous. If my own grandmother was doing it, how many other people are?"
She's outraged. Well, sorry, but if grandma didn't have more savvy than that, she should have been in a home where she would be taken care of. It's not AT&Ts responsibility to make her change. I happen to have worked for AT&T back then, a little before then, and I had to call people to make them aware of the change. All my people switched over from renting though. I can be very persuasive.
A coworker of mine lives in a rural area and is being booted from Verizon mobile because Verizon has decided it is too costly to provide them service. Verizon then tried to charge him a $150 early contract termination fee.
I believe this is legitimate revenue for the phone company. If people want to rent phones, let them.
Once you give up the lease you become responsible for all the wiring after it enters your house.
Wonder if she had to pay extra for the little penlike thing with the ball on the end that you use for dialing the rotary.......
oh geeeez! patton's mom had the aqua blue wall mounted rental
on the kitchen wall until we bought this house in 2001...it was
among the first things to leave after they moved. :D
Ester Strogen - Estrogen?
She's all woman.
Can not believe that AT&T did not give her that damn Rotary phone...sheeesh.
I've been through at least 5 'modern' phones in the last ten years.
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Granny may not have quite understood what was going on. So why didn't the kids taken care of this earlier? When ATT first made the change, we bought my parents new phones for Christmas and ran phone lines for the extension. Mom and Dad thought one phone in the kitchen was plenty. They soon discovered how nice it was to have a phone in the bedroom and the basement too.
What's that you say sonny?
Did she rent a rotary modem to go with the Phone?
When I started looking after my aging parents in the early 90's, I discovered that they were also paying "rent" on their rotary phone.
They were paying something like $4 or 5 a month for an outdated phone for many years. I pointed out to them that you could buy a decent phone for $20.
I think they had already paid hundreds of dollars in rent for theirs.
The reason they don't just 'give' customers the phone is because they can still charge them!!! AT&T had been line item billing this thing for decades and people had no freaking idea it was on there. Its just a case of 'if they don't ask, we won't tell' and AT&T isn't about to give a sucker an even break.
> $29.10 a month
I question this.
My parents rented a night light from Alabama Power Company for thirty years at $8.50 per month. That's only $3,060.00 dollars plus the electricity to operate it. I finally replaced it with one similar for under $40.00.