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WBFF: Free Phone Frenzy - abuse of the federal Lifeline program
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Posted on 08/01/2012 6:56:15 AM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

I am spinning out of control with anger. This is the tip of the giveaways, along with EBT used for drugs, booze and bail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjAjAvxDkfk


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To: goseminoles

Not the ones I saw.


21 posted on 08/01/2012 8:35:23 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

I know my state cross-checks for multiple applications with different vendors — not all states do that, I’m guessing. This state also checks for an existing lifelink landline phone. You can’t have both. In fact, the check turned up an old landline phone my relative had — from a prior apartment she had moved out from months ago.


22 posted on 08/01/2012 8:35:42 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Some info on it, from AT&T

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/articles-resources/community-support/lifeline-link-up.jsp


23 posted on 08/01/2012 8:46:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Actually the cell is all she has now, she was required to get rid of her landline to qualify for the phone. Funny thing is she hated the phone they sent her (she is 80 and couldn’t figure out how to work it) so sent it back and her daughter put her on her cell phone plan for $10 a mnth.


24 posted on 08/01/2012 8:47:18 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

The income limits seem to differ by state:

Here’s the plan doc from Verizon for New Jersey; it shows a higher income eligibility (150% of “poverty” level vs the 135% that I saw in the AT&T example I posted).

http://www22.verizon.com/cs/groups/public/documents/adacct/ll_reform_ma_application.pdf


25 posted on 08/01/2012 8:50:43 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Tracfone?

Gosh, I'm still using my ancient, 2006 Nokia 6060 "Clamshell" cellphone. Ha, but I don't care. It works reliably; that's what counts. And I have a box full of newer Nokia replacements, left-over from my out-of-business Family Business, if it ever fails.

Fancy-schmancy phone? Who needs 'em!

26 posted on 08/01/2012 9:45:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & dems don't want to solve the problem; just exploit the issue.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
If I wrote what I've overheard and seen people doing w/ EBT card scams, your head would explode. The local/state/fed gov't doesn't even want to hear about it. They told me to "forget it all".

As it is, I'm wearing ¼" of duct tape around mine, so it doesn't.

27 posted on 08/01/2012 10:21:07 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & dems don't want to solve the problem; just exploit the issue.)
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To: carriage_hill

My first cell was a Motorola. Still have it somewhere. Heavy sucker.


28 posted on 08/01/2012 10:46:10 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: TribalPrincess2U

When I was Mktng VP (’85-’87) for Hertz RAC in NYC, we had those 3-lb Motorola “Brick” units, 6” rubber antenna, large stand-up charging unit, 30-min charge, wouldn’t work indoors or in NJ-NYC tunnels. What an anchor. LOL. “Good ol’ days”.


29 posted on 08/01/2012 11:00:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & dems don't want to solve the problem; just exploit the issue.)
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To: carriage_hill
The local/state/fed gov't doesn't even want to hear about it

Different here. The state buys a lot of ads saying "Report fraud or abuse" -- gives website and phone number.

30 posted on 08/01/2012 11:09:59 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: carriage_hill

I don’t have a fancy phone either just a Samsung Tracfone. Out of curiosity, can you post comments on FR from your 6060’s browser? I can log in fine and browse but it will not post successfully. Sometimes this is frustrating, other times probably just as well lol.


31 posted on 08/01/2012 11:13:58 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: steve86

Actually, I’ve never tried that. I disabled everything on that phone except make/receive calls, calendar, timer, stopwatch and address book. (I can easily re-activate, but don’t.) Originally, I did access Net and download “24” CTU telephone ringtone to be my audible ring, but have never used it since.

http://ctu24-ringtone.com/


32 posted on 08/01/2012 11:59:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & dems don't want to solve the problem; just exploit the issue.)
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To: carriage_hill

Yep, that’s probably the one. Cost around $300 if I remember correctly.
Wish I knew where to get rid of it. Anchor you say? Why not!


33 posted on 08/01/2012 12:44:14 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Yup, it was a 1987 Motorola DynaTAC 8800x:

At Hertz, we'd gotten several "early release models" for execs to use and comment on. It was truly a "stone". Heavy, cumbersome, low-power, short-duration charge, basically a long-range radio, very expensive, but would call anywhere the satellite would let it. It always drew a crowd in NYC, as no one had anything like it back then.

You can still get a retro "brick clone" of it:

34 posted on 08/01/2012 1:11:32 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & dems don't want to solve the problem; just exploit the issue.)
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To: carriage_hill

I remember seeing those earlier phones and I thought the person must be government or high up.

I think mine was foldup type tho.


35 posted on 08/01/2012 2:57:11 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Some were actually test models - prototypes - at least the ones we had were, so we had extensive questionnaires to fill-out after using them for a selected period. They got very hot in the charger, and the short battery charge was a major problem. Carrying a spare, or taking the charger along in its fat briefcase was a PITA.

I have one of these in my collection:

http://www.angus1.com/ericsson/eiffel.htm


36 posted on 08/01/2012 3:21:39 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has a goat in lingerie and stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
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