soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoLittle graph to remind you how unbelievable it is that you can instantly contact someone anywhere on the planet for freelemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1153arrow-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 · 22 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoObama had a program that gave out free cellphones during his first term. Don’t remember how that went down.
minus-squaremhague@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days 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-down2·22 days agoAnd those plans did not cover international calls lol
minus-squareRiven@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-222 days 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.