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Stupid Cellphones

1. February 2005 | Category Rant, Technology

Why is it so easy for cell phone companys to always give you a new cell phone when you start up a plan with them, but so difficult to get rid of the old cell phone that’s put out of commision by newer and fancier technology?

You have a prefectly good cell phone that worked up to the minute you switched phones, but now begs to have something useful done with it. Sure you can donate or even sell it through some places online, but why can’t you just buy a cellular phone card and use it as an emergency or backup phone? That irks me.

Maybe it’s better to give it out to someone in a needy location but it’d be easier to keep it as a spare. It kinda worries you too that almost every family in America has one or two of these phones and it seems like they constantly need to be upgrading, posing a huge environmental burden on things as well. I just don’t get the reasoning of the industry.

I suppose it would be easy to just go into someplace like Midwest Wireless, but after all the shoddy personal customer service we’ve recieved from them, I could hardly see why they’d care. Stupidity reigns supreme.

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