Cellphones for the Poor
How much do you pay for mobile plan? $50, $80, $100?
Here is what they pay:
…The free phone is not, as it is for some others in the program, their sole form of telecommunications. Out of the roughly $1,600 they make each month after taxes, they pay $159 for a landline telephone, high-speed Internet and cable television. But the cellphone, Mr. Simmons says, gives him the flexibility to tell his wife or daughter his comings and goings or to stay in touch when he is at the doctor. … Why not? he said. “It’s free.”