A prepaid cell phone is about a $7 a month investment. Very few seniors lack $7 a month. I am spending less than $100 a year with TracPhone and $80 a year with Virgin Mobil. Virgin Mobil uses Sprint connections. I don't know who Tracphone is getting it's connections from, but it's a major carrier.
I am not sure that there is a need. The reason why you get a postage paid envelope with a new cell phone for your old one is the most cost effective thing that you can do with a cell phone is break it down for components and materials, not try to restore and resell it. Please note this is my new email address. Any mail that you get from previous addresses may not be sent by me. Mark Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Tel: (845) 566-0586 USA Cell (845) 541-7396 Can Cell (902) 314-4521 -----Original Message----- From: WestHurley ComputerReCycling <[email protected]> To: mhvlug <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 10:40 am Subject: [mhvlug] Senior Citizen Emergency Cell Phones? Recently with the heavy snow and scattered power outages became aware that in some local areas there is an unmet need concerning Senior Citizen Emergency Cell Phones. Question: Does anyone know of any MidHudson NonProfits that are involved in providing "Emergency Cell Phones" to Senior Citizens? To date have done some searches and found: 1. Phones 4 Life http://www.phones4life.org/ 2. CALL TO PROTECT http://www.donateaphone.com/CalltoProtect/donate.cfm but nothing local. Thanks Gene -- WestHurley ComputerReCycling [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
_______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
