1 posted on
01/30/2005 4:36:13 PM PST by
KidGlock
To: KidGlock
"We started in early 1970 trying to get a phone," Bolton said. "We'd talk to the phone company but they'd never call back. ...
Oh really huh?
2 posted on
01/30/2005 4:38:34 PM PST by
Brian328i
(Skimmed Oil for Food money is used to kill innocent Iraqis, where's the "No Blood for Oil" outrage?)
To: KidGlock
Gov. Kathleen Blanco plans to call 83-year-old Mink resident Alma Louise Bolton from Baton Rouge to mark the occasion... The second caller was a telemarketer selling credit cards.
-PJ
To: KidGlock
Oh, somebody has got to say it.
Can you hear me now?
6 posted on
01/30/2005 4:46:17 PM PST by
Mark
(Wait a minute- wait a minute.All of this makes my head hurt. I'm not sure I understand this.-Dan Rat)
To: KidGlock
In 1970, I could understand. But wouldn't it have been cheaper to put up a cell tower and give everyone fre cell phones?
7 posted on
01/30/2005 4:51:29 PM PST by
sittnick
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: KidGlock
A cell tower would have been a quarter of the cost...
8 posted on
01/30/2005 4:52:31 PM PST by
konaice
To: KidGlock
BellSouth Corp. has spent $700,000 - or about $47,000 per phone - to extend about 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink, about 100 miles south of Shreveport. All phone customers in the state will cover the cost through a small monthly charge on their bills. The stupidity of the phone company comes thru loud and clear. Microwave transmission is used all over the place in Louisiana. Two small towers, one at each end, plus $20K in equipment and the problem would have been solved. Then again, it's not BellSouth's money - everyone in the state is paying for it.
9 posted on
01/30/2005 4:54:36 PM PST by
ikka
To: KidGlock
They don't know how good they had it...
11 posted on
01/30/2005 4:58:23 PM PST by
Blue Collar Christian
( Do laws that restrict your rights make you feel safer?><BCC>)
To: KidGlock
SBC announced the purchase of AT&T
14 posted on
01/30/2005 5:06:08 PM PST by
bert
(Freedom trumps Peace.)
To: KidGlock
We'd talk to the phone company but they'd never call back Well, you didn't have a phone son. They couldn't call you back.
15 posted on
01/30/2005 5:07:17 PM PST by
bad company
(if guns cause crime, then keyboards cause spelling mistakes)
To: KidGlock
Don't anybody tell them about high-speed. They'll be thrilled with the dial-up for at least another twenty years. lol.
As others have stated, why couldn't they just have put up the towers and given them cell phones? And another thing, it says the other residents of the state "will be paying" for this. Haven't people been getting taxed/charged for things like this for years?
16 posted on
01/30/2005 5:11:42 PM PST by
Unknown Freeper
(Real men play (football) in the snow.)
To: KidGlock
Well, I am sure some people in a few years, will probably look upon yesterday, when there was no phone service, to being the good old days. Phone service will change a lot things, some good, some bad.
18 posted on
01/30/2005 6:20:32 PM PST by
rawhide
To: KidGlock
BellSouth Corp. has spent $700,000 - or about $47,000 per phone - to extend about 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink, about 100 miles south of Shreveport. All phone customers in the state will cover the cost through a small monthly charge on their bills.Bullshiet... They say it costs that much so they can charge the customers more for their profit. Really doubt it costs 700k.
20 posted on
01/30/2005 6:53:22 PM PST by
chemicalman
(Finally an answer for the prisoner problem at Abu Ghraib: Don't take any.)
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