Subj : Re: Your cell phone bill?
To   : deon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jul 21 2022 08:11:00

-=> deon wrote to Nightfox <=-

 de> But I dont understand why on a mobile/cell device. When I first got a
 de> mobile, all those decades ago, it was possible to have multiple numbers
 de> on it - where the 2nd number was to receive fax (I never understood why
 de> people wanted a fax service on a cell phone), but I dont think that
 de> took off.

For the longest time, cell phone carriers used to have a pre-recorded prompt 
after your recorded greeting that that said something like "To leave a 
message, speak after the beep. To send a fax, press 2.  There was another 
option, too.

One of the cell phone carriers, Verizon, I believe, even included the amount 
they made in per-minute charges for all the times people listened to that 
useless message.

I asked that they remove the message, as it others when the news came to 
light. They did so...

Resulting in 14 seconds of dead air before the beep.

This was the same company that when a long-standing excise tax was repealed, 
raised their prices by the same amount as a "convenience" for their 
customers, who they claimed they'd polled and found out they preferred to be 
billed the same amount over saving money.




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