-CH> I can walk into Bell Atlantic today and get month to month
-CH> service, so
-CH> I guess you agree with me.
I did some more thinking on the issue, you're right, the phones aren't free. 
The day that I can walk into a cellular store and ask for a phone and have 
them hand me one without asking any questions is the day that they can be 
called free.
The word free seems to have a new definition, namely "at no additional 
charge" but because there are strings attached to getting the phone, I will 
agree with you 100 percent that they aren't free.
Looking at it from the side of the cellular carriers, I will say that they 
are careful enough to list the strings that are attached to the "free phones" 
in their ads. I don't blame them for advertising the way that they do and 
don't think there is anything wrong with it.
BTW, it's nice that in your market you can go in and sign up with your own 
equipment and not have to sign a one year contract. BANM doesn't do that in 
our market.
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