"Ernie P" <
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> Keep Obama in President! Get you an Obamaphone!!! Ernie
>
The free phone had it genesis in the Ragan eara and was, in part, the
product of lobbying by the wire line phone companies.
The program shifted to wireless during the Bush admin (I doubt anyone in the
executive or legislative branches were in on the change).
All politics removed the cell phone provision is less expensive and more
effective for the intended purpose than the wire line phones.