Posted on 03/10/2006 7:00:49 AM PST by mathprof
Is that to local Iraqi's or military bases?
I'm pretty certain it is one rate..at least that's the way it is in other countries with a US military presence.
Another example of the brilliant intelligence two birds with one stone in our military!
"Get off the phone you big dope!"
LOL! That happens!
LOL! That happens!
When I was living in the dorm in Spain, somebody from the Comm Squadron hooked up a phone to a direct satellite link in the 80's! Permanently. Free phone calls to anywhere. People were on that phone all the time. Until the bills came in, which took another year:) The O.S.I. shut it down after the bill was over $250,000. I moved off-base and daintily stepped aside.
People would spend long periods of time on that phone in a bathrobe where the beer machine is. I mean hours. Mark Levin has it down.
"Get off the phone you big dope!"
We had a beer machine in college.
Did you have free phone calls toward 8000 miles away?
If you bought enough from the vending machines....
Yeah, the wall phone was 6 feet from the beer machine. All the machine had in it was Schlitz cans. Rotgut compared to the Spanish Mahou beer which is very smooth and well done. Off base, I preferred cafes con leche con Anis- liqorice steamed coffee. Very tasty. I became a "phone booth man" at that time near my apartimento calling en collecto.
AT&T gave a half-million dollars to the Clinton Library. It is the most corrupt business entity in the US.
AT&T probably charges lower rates to al-Qaida.
<< 21 cents a minute from Iraq to the US?
Cry me a river. I remember ten years ago when it cost over $3 a minute to call India from the US. 21 cents a minute is still pretty cheap. >>
Twenty years ago, I often had 2 and 3 Thousand Dollar 'phone bills when checking out of Baghdad and other mid-east hotels after one and two night stays.
Given the conditions in which ATT&T is operating, Twenty-one Cents is remarkably cheap from Iraq.
Only an American Company could pull it off!!
Way to go AT&T!
"How much you paid for a call from Antarctica is irrellevant to this discussion. Rendered so by technological advances. What matters is how much more they are charging our service members over the going international rates. Do you think its fair to charge them 300+ times the going rates?"
The going rate 21/300 cents for calls from Iraq to the US. I don't think so I can't call next door for that price.
Check out the FTS 2000 government long distance contract. I heard it was 7 cents a min to UK & 5 cents for US. Some places 2 1/2 cents. So it can be done. At&t has the lions share of this contract.Whats more my son was in Iraq & got the bronze star & AT&T has raped my copyrights & I have been unable to do anything about it due to their power.So no body can tell me anything about AT&T.
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