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Every time the geniuses in the Federal Government come up with a 'new idea', it costs me a fricking mint and the service gets worse. I could hit towers 40 miles away with a pole and a directional antenna with my analog bag phone.

Gotta switch to digital...$500.00 later I have a service that works about half as well beyond the end of the sidewalk...Phone company buyout disrupts my secondary phone service and I get a week to use up the 800 minutes and year's service before that phone is dead. Now, the phone company who bought out my primary cellular provider (by Federal mandate the other provider here couldn't buy them out and have twice as many towers in a very rural area because that would mean a monopoly) has changed styles of phones, and off to the bloody races again with new equipment and a host of 'features' I don't want (I just want a phone that works!).

Now this....If I didn't need one for work, I wouldn't have one.