From: STAN PHILLIPS 
Subject: Re: Explanation of the name and purpose of the Blink Link  company
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Laura here on behalf of;
Attorney Stan Phillips:
Per his telephone instructions, I wish to please advise you:
That Blink Link Tele-Communications Corporation, is currently in the
process of terriff authorization from The Federal Communications Commision
pursuant to International #214 pact.
Estimated time line is by May first, 1998.
At that time we may look in to originating some products and/or services
from areas out side of North America.
Currently we can originate from The United States to 273 Countries of the
286 on the International Telephone And Telegraph S. M. S. network.
Only on a research basis are we interested at this time in developing any
products or services to originate outside of North America.
If you have a development project or idea, please submit them directly to
myself;  And I will direct them to the proper Associate or engineerring
team here.
Thanks for your inquiry.
Are you useing our free International E-Mail address forwarding service?
You might consider doing so as those Customers useing that free service
receive monthly updates as well as free long distance and other services in
exchange for research information.
Laura on the job for:
At 11:06 AM 3/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Forwarded mail received from:
>RNIB2:Peterborough:PB.SMTP:"NFB-Talk@NFBnet.org"
>Stan,
>
>Just to indicate how I got to know of your email address,
>forwarded note attached.
>
>Could you tell me if you have any plans to extend your service
>overseas? I am writing from the UK and would be very interested
>in such a service, or helping set one up.
>
>Just wondered.
>
>STeve Tyler      Date:  03/07/1998  06:06 pm  (Saturday)  
>      From:  
>        To:  Multiple recipients of NFBnet NFB-Talk Mailing Lis
>        CC:  PB.SMTP("VICUG-L@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU")
>   Subject:  Explanation of the name and purpose of the Blink Link 
>             company
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>From: STAN PHILLIPS 
>Subject: interesting observation!
>To: blindlaw@NFBnet.org (Multiple recipients of NFBnet BlindLaw Mailing 
ist)
>
>Mr. Steve Hurd,
>Secretary Bonnie, on behalf of Mr. Phillips;  Who is out of Town with an
>exploited child case he is working on.
>I have read your messages as exchanged by and between yourself and Bill
>Reif;  For which Mr. Phillips, has instructed me to transmitt the following:
>Gentlemen, I find these messages regarding the name "Blink Link
>Tele-Communication Corporation," to in all honesty have used the time and
>energy of two who appear to be rather wise Gentlemen defending an issue
>that I believe need not have so much of your valueable time.
>I would as The Founder of Blink Link Tele-Communications Corporation, give
>the facts of how this business named actually came about.
>By way of background, I being a totally blind person and not liking the
>treatment being given me at my public high school, did in 1971, walk out
>for good.  I proceeded to enroll in adult continuing education at a
>community college, graduated on time, thereafter finished my four year
>degree at California State, then three more years in law school.  Because I
>had dropped out of high school, I got no aid from any government or charity
>entities whatsoever.  I bit the dust more times than I care to remember.
>Thereafter I have by the grace of GOD enjoyed much success in the business
>banking profession.  Here today I am able to retire from my law practice
>and give this worthy enterprise all my best;  Not only abilities, but
>substantial financial resources.
>OK now that I have told you where I am coming from, I would like to tell
>you where I am going and why:
>I was just a couple of months ago granted one of a few telecommunications
>licenses being offered by The F. C. C.  I gave a great deal of thought to
>simply taking one of the rather desirable offers made to me by a couple of
>the major phone companies and walk with my profits.  However I spent allot
>of time just thinking about how this might better help some people enjoy
>the blessing of GOD as I have.  As I thought back on my life I said to
>myself, remember those blind students you left behind in that "special
>education class?"  That made me decide I was going to search out a few
>visually impaired people who have enough going for themselves without being
>mad at the World to give an opportunity for success.  I had zero contact
>with other blind persons in some twenty five plus years.  Actually I had no
>idea how I was going to find these blind people to help me enjoy this
>blessing from GOD.  So while I was running that through my mind, I
>contacted an advertising agency in Chicago, and a survey company in New
>York.  I told them I wanted to start a new telecommunications company, and
>to find me a name for the business.  Neither of them knew me, nor had they
>ever met me.  Furthermore I did not even tell them I was blind.  I simply
>paid them twenty thousand dollars to telephone survey one thousand people
>and interview some professionals in the long distance phone company
>business.  Frankly, I myself had never known the term "blink" was
>associated with visually impaired people;  And I am certain blind people
>were the furthest thing from the minds of any of the several people working
>in both Companies.  After a great deal of research in the public market
>place they came up with the idea of "making a connection in a blink of any
>eye, link up and save money with your long distance."  In need of making a
>business name short and that could be associated with that marketing fraze
>we all mutually agreed upon "Blink Link Tele-Communications Corporation."
>I proceeded to file my identity documents with The Federal Government, as
>well as articles of incorporation with The State Department of Commerce.
>Once I was ready to go, I then started to search out some visually impaired
>people.  I knew there could never be any financial contribution by them, so
>I together with a couple of my Clients who own an off shore Bank, invested
>the joint venture capital needed.  I just by a stroke of luck  while buying
>my first ever screen reading software and over the phone met my first blind
>friend in many years.
>As he proceeded initially to put the word out for me in to "The Blind
>Community," he in about our third conversation made a rather shocking
>statement:  "OK Stan, I got your private name and number going out to a
>bunch of blinks."  I said, "What the hell is blinks."  He then proceeded to
>inform me of the fact that this  identity tag some blind persons used it.
>When I told him that was the name already licensed to the new phone
>company, he did not believe me.  I had to send him a photo copy of the
>license and he had somebody sighted verify it for himself.
>So when I hear my honorable Associates trying to defend the name, it makes
>me sad and also reminds me of the blind persons I left behind so long ago.
>If the word "blink" appearing in a business name is offensive, then I refer
>you to a copy of The A. T. and T. yellow pages for toll free business
>listing.  According to my Secretary just this evening, there are nineteen
>pages of business in the alpha section which start with the word blink, and
>GOD only knows how many others have the word blink in their names otherwise.
>To relate a verb such as "blink" to an offensive nick name like "nigar" I
>find obserd.  Also to have a sighted person make such a statement calling a
>blind person a "blink" I find rather remarkable.  I am myself blind and in
>twenty eight of my years of being blind, I never knew that untill just two
>months ago.  Further, when in a telephone survey by a very respected survey
>company calling one thousand people did they not have it come up?  Frankly
>the fact of the matter is, most of the real World associates the word
>"blink" as a rapid eye movement or opening and closing of a lens.
>My choice of the words "Blink Link" was in no way connected to blind
>persons.  I did not just give all that money away to the advertising agency
>and survey company;  I took their advise and put it to use.
>If anybody thinks for a minute that Blink Link Tele-Communications
>Corporation, will be successful serving only visually impaired persons,
>think again.  I have a bit more business experience than that.  The fact
>is, I intend to enter the long distance telephone market for all users and
>honestly believe I have a name that the sighted World will relate to just
>as I want them to;  A fast hook up to quality long distance service at a
>competative rate.
>Now I believe if those few people who were objecting to my use of "Blink"
>were to look at my business from a reasonable and fair view, I believe you
>will agree that I made a good business choice.  If you sincerely believe
>visually impaired people have been denied opportunities, then why now when
>the once in a nearly life time the chance comes along for them without
>having a penny to invest get to become owners of a license that already is
>worth millions, why not enjoy the blessing from GOD?
>In closing Gentlemen, I want to thank you for helping me remember how those
>blind students were I was a part of so many years ago.  I am grateful to
>GOD that HE let me escape having nothing to do but find things to complain
>about or bad mouth HIS blessings to another person.  I would like to offer
>as food for your thoughts:  Leave behind the negative and live the
>posative.  I actually learned braille with Stevey Wonder, and we lived only
>a couple of blocks from each other in Detroit as children.  I wonder if his
>success had anything to do with not searching for reasons to associate his
>blindness with anything else, such as failures and negative issues.  He
>once said to me many years later at a dinner in Los Vegus, "Stan I caint
>get off on that blind trip.  They spend to much time talking about their
>vision when they should be playing drums."  Gentlement, I could not have
>agreed with him more;  As that is just what I honestly believe brought me
>to the level of success I enjoy;  I left all that behind and live in the
>posative world.
>Ask yourself this:
>What possible difference does it make if I or any of the other thousands of
>business use blink in their name?
>Actually if I had said something like, "Phones For Blinks," or "Blinks
>Serving You," then I might understand somebody saying we are picking on
>blind people.
>However since that is not true, I rest my case.
>End of dictation of Mr. Phillips;
>With Bonnie, on behalf of:
>Respectfully With Best Regards,
>Stan Phillips
>phone 1-8 8 8-7 7 6-7 8 2 6
>e-mail STANPHILLIPS@WRITEME.COM
>May God bless all of us always.
>
>
>
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Thanks for letting us serve you.
Blink Link Tele-Communication Corporation
phone 1- 800- 4 4 1-5 4 6 5
Post Office Box 100
Townville, SC 2 9 6 8 9
through us you will find service is as fast as in the "blink of an eye!"  You 
will have the best link for tele-communications services.
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Respectfully With Best Regards,
Stan Phillips
phone 1-8 8 8-7 7 6-7 8 2 6
e-mail STANPHILLIPS@WRITEME.COM
May God bless all of us always.
								
	
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