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You ever hear people say that?
Cheapest landline I can find around here: $45/month, with long-term contract. Most are closer to $60.
Cell phone data plan with unlimited text and talk, worldwide, and 500 mb of web: $50/month, no contract.
We SHOULD be saying, "That person can't REALLY be poor -- they can afford to not have a cell phone!"
The whole "cell phones are for rich people" stopped being true in the 20th century.
Cheapest landline I can find around here: $45/month, with long-term contract. Most are closer to $60.
Cell phone data plan with unlimited text and talk, worldwide, and 500 mb of web: $50/month, no contract.
We SHOULD be saying, "That person can't REALLY be poor -- they can afford to not have a cell phone!"
The whole "cell phones are for rich people" stopped being true in the 20th century.
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Date: 2013-09-23 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-23 06:26 pm (UTC)And, as you say, cell phones are cheap.
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Date: 2013-09-23 07:04 pm (UTC)(Days per year it would significantly benefit me to have a cellphone, for logistics: ~3-5, on average over the past decade. Days per year it significantly benefits me not to have a cellphone, on control over communication with birth family levels: 365.25, averaged similarly.)
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Date: 2013-09-23 08:20 pm (UTC)I currently have no landline at home - and am perfectly happy living that way. AT&T has tried to entice me into getting 'fixed wireless' service - basically a cell phone that doesn't move. They sell you a device that sits in your house, plugs into the wall, and makes calls through the wireless network. And charge you less than they would for a landline.
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Date: 2013-09-23 11:07 pm (UTC)I always did think it silly when people complained about poor folks having cell phones.
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