soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoLittle graph to remind you how unbelievable it is that you can instantly contact someone anywhere on the planet for freelemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down112file-textcross-posted to: dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageLittle graph to remind you how unbelievable it is that you can instantly contact someone anywhere on the planet for freelemmy.worldsoumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoObama had a program that gave out free cellphones during his first term. Don’t remember how that went down.
minus-squaremhague@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThey still had them in California as of a month ago. I always saw their setups around my city. You could get a phone and a tablet, but the tablet might have been tied to certain provider or your benefits (EBT/snap/etc)
minus-squareBeardedBlaze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months agoAnd those plans did not cover international calls lol
minus-squareRiven@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoThey didn’t but you could hook em up to free wifi which you could use to make free calls with apps like WhatsApp, skype, Facebook, etc.
Obama had a program that gave out free cellphones during his first term. Don’t remember how that went down.
They still had them in California as of a month ago. I always saw their setups around my city. You could get a phone and a tablet, but the tablet might have been tied to certain provider or your benefits (EBT/snap/etc)
And those plans did not cover international calls lol
They didn’t but you could hook em up to free wifi which you could use to make free calls with apps like WhatsApp, skype, Facebook, etc.