Do these people get Mileage?
 

According to a January Boston Globe report, 3 million
residential customers still lease AT&T telephones (from Lucent
Technologies) at rates of $53 to $252 a year, virtually all of
whom have been doing so continuously since the breakup of AT&T in
1984. Most of the customers are elderly, and when a Globe
reporter asked whether they were being exploited, the Lucent
spokesperson said, "As long as there is demand for the service,
we will continue to provide it."

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TW

Perfect example of why us trust-busters broke up ole Ma Bell.

Djlawman

That sounds about right. (Which is to say wrong of course).

When the grandmother of a friend of mine died, AT&T wanted to recover its leased telephone, a very old and most likely useless rotary dial phone, they had been leasing for who knows how long. For whatever reason, the family could not find the phone. They had to fork $150 over to cover the "cost" of the lost phone, on which hundreds of dollars of monthly rental fees had been paid.