Washington, DC - The
"air phone look" is a person's left or right arm crooked with the hand touching
the ear and lips simultaneously with the thumb and little finger extended, 3
other fingers folded under the palm.
Everyone's doing it whether it's on TV or in the movies; on buses or trains;
even through plate glass windows — and always with the mouthed "call me"
attached. AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Sprint are foaming at the mouth over this
blatant quasi phone usage without paying for it.
They are
gearing up their lobbyists now on K-Street in DC to go to battle for the rights
to their exclusivity of this blatant trespass without payment by everyone on the
street.
Caught
in a spur-of-the-moment sidewalk conversation, one pr agent said, "You know that
it had to be addressed. All these people walking around and seeing friends who
they haven't talked to in 10-15 minutes - they just put up their hand and send
the "call-me" message, and bang, their phone rings. Unbelievable. And our
clients lose out on that revenue. It has to change and quickly."
Another
lobbyist made a pitch to a Congressional telecom sub-committee that is charged
with writing possible legislation. "I know that this seems strange at the
beginning, but the more you think about it, someone is using this shorthand
communication language to say "call me" to someone else. It is so almost
illegal, that we need to word it in a way that people will calmly accept that
they need to pay for the act itself."
The
hard-line attack is said to be that everyone with a phone in the US will be
charged a minimal 1-cent a day, 30 cents a month Air Phone fee. Since almost
everyone has a phone of one sort or another, that's almost all of the 300
million US citizens currently living here times 30 cents...$90 million large to
be collected for the privilege of use.
As the
lobbyist said, "that's not bad when you consider the sad state of phone
companies, trying to make a buck under governmental regulations. They are
strapped almost head to foot by all the citizen boards around that want
something for nothing. It's not fair to the companies that people can just
decide to do this Air Phone act and get away with it."
Not to
mention the terrorist coverage that they are doing for the intelligence thing.
The phone pr man said that "our people have been tagged by the White House
operatives who want to build an exclusive Air Phone Network. This APN is to be
used by CIA agents, who need to contact the FBI and other intelligence agencies
with privileged information. They don't want terrorists to hear the
conversation, so the Air Phone works perfectly for their clandestine purposes."
Then he leaned closer and said, "Cheney even wants in on this Network. He has
needs for lots of these types of calls."
Stay
tuned for more on this under-the-radar legislation battle. You haven't begun to
hear the last of this.
By
BobZaguy
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