Cell phones are a "Plague" ...

I once saw 3 men lose thier jobs, in just as many hours, because they could not stay off the damn things...

I had a cell phone for a little while but ... I found out it's much more fun telling someone where they can go when your in thier face, and poking a finger in the middle of thier chest.:smug:

I'll never understand US phone companies. T-Mobile wanted a $500 deposit from me because I wasn't a citizen, Cingular just needed my name and set me up with a phone for $40.

Update - http://consumerist.com/consumer/excl...ice-277026.php

I worked for a small phone company back in New England. Our consumer division got stammed by the Russian couple I will call Boris and Natasha. They ran a promotion for free month of long distance, for folks signing up with our service. Boris and Natasha ran up a $5000 phone bill the first month with calls to Russia.:lol:

After that, they only gave out the 3rd month for free, and it was capped at a maximum of the average of the first two months.

When the "800" numbers were running out in the early 1990's, NYNEX was charging business customers $150 to "reserve" one of the remaining numbers. I picked up a lot of clients because my company considered this a total scam, and did't charge any type of fee like this.

Now of course there are all kinds of Toll Free Area Codes available.

That Sprint Insider sounds more like a Sprint spin person.