Comments on: Virgin Mobile launches service for low-income households

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By: derrick jeffries

derrick jeffries — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:03:08 +0000

when are you coming to new jersey with this program because safelink is full of bull

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:43:35 +0000

I am a disabled woman who has the safelink service by the way it is 60 minutes a month NOT 80 minutes Those muinutes do roll over.

Without this phone I would never be able to call a cab to get home from doctors appointments

By: Bob Schuman

Bob Schuman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:12:30 +0000

I am one of the disabled people using a safelink phone. I feel 200 minuted should be the max. I have a safelink phone and by the time the doctors, government or others take you off hold your minutes are gone. I don’t talk much but the phone is necessary when I leave the house with my oxygen. I do have a basic landline and basic internet to pay bills and order products as I have no car and very little mass transportation. It is hard to walk to store with oxygen on and carry groceries home. I worked hard for what I owned and now just happy to get something back. I do not want a free ride.

By: EnufZNuf

EnufZNuf — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:52:04 +0000

I didn’t have a problem with the so-called “Obama Phone.”
It seemed reasonable to give poor people a cheap phone and a few minutes a month.
Go find a job. Go to the doctor. Get the car fixed. Whatever.
But this new Virgin Mobile program gives poor people 200 minutes a month.
FREE!
It’s too much!
What’s next? Iphones? Blackberries?
Virgin is using taxpayer money extravagantly.
Am I wrong?

By: BrooklynBombers

BrooklynBombers — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:02:20 +0000

All these companies are starting to offer service for the low income user. Before we know it, we won’t have any companies left that charge for cell phones. I understand that a cell phone is becoming a necessity, but why is it that Virgin Mobile is doing it? I mean, don’t they mainly aim their phones and service at the younger, college crowd? Last time I checked, college students can’t claim unemployment. Why doesn’t Virgin just give their paying users a discount rather than free phones to the “select” few? ‘Bo’ to the ‘Gus’

By: Ali Blabber

Ali Blabber — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:50:15 +0000

I love how some people refer to the Safelink program as “an Obama phone.”

WTF?

The program’s been in effect for 25 years and finally recognizes the reality of cell phones as a viable option for communication.

And the phones themselves are cheap, low-end devices, but the right wing echo chamber rails against this because of the perception that cell phones are somehow “luxuries.”

Crazy.

By: Lama

Lama — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:04:29 +0000

I think this Safelink program is a very good thing because when I read the Sullivan Report which came out earlier this year I realized just how much a cell phone can help in finding work and improving ones income. Tracfone has been doing this for over a year now and it is a very good thing to have started.

By: mike freeman

mike freeman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:49:18 +0000

VM via Sprint covers 280 million people supposedly. But I can say that vs. Tracfone’s Safelink, VM has to offer more in order to compensate for Trac’s superior coverage which is supposed to cover 99% of the US. 200 is triple their 68 minutes though.