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Default Emergency Alert System (WAS: Cooking for One - Questions)

On 6/11/2014 10:27 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

>> You must live in a bad area, maybe there are not enough cell towers. I
>> chat with people long distance on my cell phone and we have never
>> dropped a call, I hear just as clearly as I do on my landline. I use
>> my cell phone for emergencies and for texting, I would rather text
>> than talk. I pay $99 a year and I will never use all of my minutes.
>>
>> Becca

>
> Dropped calls are very common here and they were also common when my
> husband was living in NY. All he had was the cell phone and yet most of
> the time he could not use it from his housing.
>
> $99 a year? We pay more than that in a month! Three phones though and
> unlimited everything. We do need unlimited. I don't use my phone much
> but the other two do use theirs a lot.



Amazing how much we, as a nation, spend on Cable/Sat TV, Internet, and
Phones. I wonder if our lives would be better or worse if we did not
have them. And how many people give up things like food so they can pay
the phone bill.