[Erik Latranyi]

If you have a phone and cannot pay your bill, the phone company call cut off your LD and calling, but cannot cut off your 911 “lifeline” access.

How did that morph into giving a free phone with free minutes every month?!

[Blueflag]

In real dollars it costs ‘us’ less to give them a free cel phone and 2 minutes per day of airtime as a lifeline than it does to maintain the old landline services for the indigent.

Society has long ago decided that the indigent shall have a telephone lifeline. This is a less costly way to do it.