Re: What A Propaganda Article Brought To You By Qwest

You've delivered again! My admiration grows, Nephew.

Uncle Nevin

>From: "Tijs Limburg" 
>Subject: Re: What A Propaganda Article Brought To You By Qwest
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:45:57 -0600
>
>Garth,
>
>They also forgot one thing, that is that most household phones these days
>use power due to their portability as wireless handsets. I haven't seen a
>phone that doesn't use power in years. And as you pointed out, cell phones
>can be charged in a car if needed. Try charging a handset in a car! As
>well, my cell phone batteries last for days. I think on average I charge
>my
>phone 3.5 times per week. I don't think power outages are even an issue.
>If your power is our more than a few hours, it is usually due to something
>severe enough to knock down power poles, which means landline telephony
>won't work either because those lines are down also.
>
>Remember how they tell everyone not to make calls during an earthquake in
>order to keep the lines that do work open for emergency crews? Well, cell
>phones relieve that problem. And the towers themselves are extremely
>resilient Let's remember that when September 11th happened, people were
>able to use cell phones without many problems. I remember cell phone usage
>during that time was at record volumes as relatives from all over were
>calling the cell phone numbers of loved ones in NY to see if they were
>affected. Try that with a copper land line. (Oh, and did I mention that
>the long distance call for all of those who used a cell phone was free?)

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