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OBAMAPHONES for jobless; Contract awarded to Provide free Androids
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[quote:Lady Jane Smith:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzM1OTY1ODY2X0U4MEM1RjBE] [quote:Chrit:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzM1OTY1NDUzX0JBNTEwMTI1] [quote:Chrit:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzM1OTY1NDA4XzUwRjQyQ0U4] [quote:Anonymous Coward 18242403:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzM1OTY1MzQ1XzRGNjY4M0Q0] [quote:MuslimAmerican:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzM1OTY1MzIyXzg3NThCMUYx] [quote:Lady Jane Smith:MV8yMTMwOTM1XzNDNTcwNERE] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/obama-crony-wins-contract-to-give-phones-to-jobles/ A cellphone company whose top executive has close ties to President Obama lobbied for and won a piece of a major new government push to provide Internet service to low-income job-seekers, even though critics say the company’s smartphones are poorly suited to the task of helping those in the program find work. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/obama-crony-wins-contract-to-give-phones-to-jobles/#ixzz2KAIIzxKe Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter [/quote] Funny how these existed prior Obama but he gets the credit for them, free phones and internet were pre-Bush. [/quote] You are correct. No such thing as an Obama phone. There is one problem with the Obama Phone: It doesn’t exist. Since 2009, there has been an urban myth that Obama created a program to provide free phones to low-income Americans at taxpayer expense. There is, in fact, a government program that will provide low-income people with a free or low cost cell phone. It was started in 2008 under George W. Bush. The idea of providing low-income individuals with subsidized phone service was originated in the Reagan administration following the break-up of AT&T in 1984. (It was expanded and formalized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.) The program is paid for by telecommunications companies through an independent non-profit, not through tax revenue. [/quote] Did no one read the link? Federal pilot contracts for the Internet program were awarded in December and are an expansion of the [b]$2.4 billion-a-year Lifeline phone program, which is funded by a “universal service” charge of about $2.50 per household added to customers’ monthly bills. The decades-old program was used to subsidize landlines and attracted little scrutiny, [color=red]but since 2008, when it began paying for cellphones,[/color] demand has exploded, [color=red]largely because of the efforts of TracFone[/color], which has cornered the market on the subsidized distribution of phones without Internet data plans.[/b] “TracFone currently has over 4 million Lifeline subscribers. Furthermore, [b]in every state in which TracFone provides Lifeline service it has increased the Lifeline participation rate by a substantial percentage[/b],” TracFone wrote in its proposal for the broadband pilot. TracFone, the nation’s largest provider of prepaid cellphone services, provides far more subsided service than any other telecommunications company, with more than three times as many recipients as Verizon. America Movil’s [b]Mr. Fuentes acknowledged that growth in the program was a result of its marketing, including canvassing, promoting “free camera phones” with 250 minutes of talk time.[/b] “[b]We do a very aggressive advertising, grass-roots campaigns to alert the people that this government program is available[/b],” he said. Different approach [b]Last year, the FCC announced its intention to expand the program to provide broadband Internet[/b], envisioning cable companies providing wired hookups to home computers. In December, it selected proposals from [b]14 companies for a $25 million pilot program[/b], the vast majority of which provide DSL hookups for desktop or laptop computers, and many of which also require digital literacy training. But TracFone’s proposal was different. There would be no computers in sight, no opportunities to practice typing, read extensively or polish a resume. The company proposed instead simply offering fancier phones with Internet plans included, something it knows appeals to the poor. “As proposed by TracFone, 500,000 to 1,000,000 low-income households would participate in the trial. [b]In the pilot program[/b] Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/obama-crony-wins-contract-to-give-phones-to-jobles/?page=2#ixzz2KAdbcVvV Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter Way less then 50% [/quote] One more snip from the link. [b]A spokesman for the FCC did not say whether the fund had a large surplus or how the full-scale broadband program would be financed, except that it would not be by adding a charge to consumers’ Internet bills.[/b] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/obama-crony-wins-contract-to-give-phones-to-jobles/?page=3#ixzz2KAekNmEa [/quote] Thank you, Good Sir :o) :hf: [/quote]
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A cellphone company whose top executive has close ties to President Obama lobbied for and won a piece of a major new government push to provide Internet service to low-income job-seekers, even though critics say the company’s smartphones are poorly suited to the task of helping those in the program find work.
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