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- Telesluts
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- What is a teleslut? Any one of the numerous people that are slaves
- to their communication devices. Phones, pagers, and cells are the main
- enslaving devices. With the rapid increase of new technology in the
- communications field, more and more people are jumping on the bandwagon
- to have that technology. Normally I am all for that, as it gives more
- money to those developing the technology, and more research is done.
- In this case, it is causing more of the 90's mentality to go with it.
- Ever see the young corporate types walk into a building wearing
- a 30 dollar suit, 70 dollar pair of sunglasses, a pager, and a Motorola
- flip phone? They are trying to fit into the wealthy yuppie appearance
- to impress those around them. I have to wonder what one thinks when
- he runs into another one though. Since I am on both sides of the cell/pager
- market, and get to see the selling and the buying side, I get to laugh
- when I see these people posturing as if they are a high and mighty important
- person.
- The truth is, in so many of the cases, they paid all of one penny
- for their phone. Most of them will usually pay about 15 to 30 dollars
- a month for overpriced service so they can retain the phone. After one
- year of getting ripped off, they keep the phone, and are able to go on
- about the same rate if they want service. If you were able to look at
- their bills for airtime, you would notice over 75% of them don't even use
- their phones for 30 minutes a month. The other interesting part of their
- cellular plan is they get 30 minutes of air time without a charge.
- With their pagers, they usually pay about 40 bucks for the pager,
- and 7 bucks a month for service. 90% of their pages are from friends
- wanting to bullshit with them. The original use of a pager is long lost
- in the desire to be cool and fit in. Look at how many 13 to 18 year olds
- carry pagers at school. All their friends are in school with them (some
- have dropped out), so they have no legitimate need to carry it, yet they
- do. It has become a status symbol.
- I have a pager myself, because I run a business out of my house,
- work a 40 hour a week job, and don't spend too much time at the house.
- I have cell service because I get a huge discount since I am a reseller
- of cell service. If I only worked and stayed at home, I wouldn't have
- a pager. If the service wasn't so cheap (3 cents a minute), then I wouldn't
- have a cell phone.
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- I live in Denver (USWest territory), so the following section
- applies to that phone company (and some others probably). USWest is
- pushing for more add ons to your normal service because it makes them
- money. Stop to think about the services they offer. Voice mail? Conveniant,
- but over one year of paying for it, you could have had an answering machine
- that would last at least a couple of years. Call forwarding? To what, that
- pager or cell phone you barely use?
- The biggest rip off service they offer is Caller ID. I am constantly
- amazed that the stupidity of the people I deal with in regards to phone
- service. People go to stores wanting the little caller ID box, and spend
- from 45 to 90 dollars on a unit with 'the most features'. Half of them
- go home, plug it in, and bitch at the store because it doesn't work.
- After they realize they have to have the service from the phone company,
- they bitch at USWest because they keep getting 'Call Blocked'. It costs
- them just under 10 bucks a month for the service. On top of that the
- expensive box. Why? So they can tell who is calling them right? Why
- does USWest offer another service for FREE that allows a phone subscriber
- to have ALL OUTGOING calls from their house PERMANANTLY blocked for
- Caller ID?
- When I make a call from my place, it is automatically Caller ID
- blocked. For those who don't call to have that put on their line, they
- can just hit a three button 'star' code and block it for that call.
- So the customer paying all the money is not getting what he or she payed
- for in most cases. If someone is going to take the time to prank call you,
- do you think they are not going to block Caller ID?
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- Overall, people are paying a ton for these services. Upwards
- of 25 bucks for the phone bill, 30 for the cell, 7 for the pager,
- all so they can be reached any time, any where. People are gladly
- getting ripped off, so they are considered cool, rich, hip, or whatever
- else.
- A cell and a pager don't make you cool. They make you a slave
- to the telecommunications industry.
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