Phone Redux

After my little rant the other day about phones, I see that there are still rural areas of the U.S. that do not have any phone service whatsoever. The town of Mink, LA, just got regular phone access.

Phones aren't all bad. After all, as mentioned in the article, it can take emergency personnel a long time to get to a place without the proper access.

However, I still wonder how we ever managed without phones. Just this past weekend, I saw two Wal-Martians on their cellphones. One man was talking loudly in Spanish; another woman was trying to select meat while holding her cellphone with her shoulder. At least she was quiet.

Now SBC is buying AT&T. Sounds like a new monopoly could be forming.