Poor in Colorado may get free phones
• Denver Post
Thousands of low-income Coloradans reliant on public assistance could get a free [tax funded] cellphone under a plan before the state Public Utilities Commission.
If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare that proponents say taps into one of the last untapped markets for the telecom technology.
No job? No food? No place to live? Here's a phone. Call the Psychic Friends Hotline and ask them what to do.
Hey, the poor need a cell phone too so that they can (a) look hip; and (b) call the Welfare office when their check and food stamps are late.