[nagdu] nagdu using 911 for access denial?

Thu Aug 11 16:08:04 UTC 2011

What's wrong with unfair and unequal service? Everything has a cost. See/ I told you it was an unpopular opinion.
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY

On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Dan Weiner wrote:

> What the heck is wrong with unfair and unequal service, it's nice for once
> that blindness would count in our favor rather than against us.
> Well, if you like spending $1.25 be my guest.
> 
> Dan W. and the Carter Dog
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Buddy Brannan
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:04 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] nagdu using 911 for access denial?
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> Undoubtedly, this is an unpopular and minority opinion, but I don't believe
> we are entitled to free directory assistance on our cellphones, nor should
> we ask for it. Here's my reasoning. 
> 
> Originally, the free directory assistance was set up by the phone companies
> as an equivalent service. Since we can't read the telephone directory,
> provided by the telephone company, we would be given a service equivalent to
> the free telephone directory; namely, the ability to call directory
> assistance to ask for the number which we cannot look up ourselves. 
> 
> Since no cell phone company gives out telephone directories as part of that
> phone service, what we would begetting by asking for free directory
> assistance is not an equivalent service to replace one we cannot access, but
> an unfair and unequal benefit that is not available to the general public.
> We are not, in fact, asking for an equivalent service to level the playing
> field, as it were, but for a special benefit. What justification do we have
> for needing such a benefit? OK, there are still telephone directories we
> can't read, but why is that the phone company's problem? Especially in light
> of tools available to all, such as online telephone directories? Why should
> the phone company absorb this cost, small as it may be, on our behalf? Do we
> want equality, or do we want special treatment? I would suggest that we
> shouldn't ask for special treatment where such treatment is not warranted,
> unless we are prepared to not be afforded equal and first-class citizenship.
> 
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:15 PM, GARY STEEVES wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone:
>> 
>> I'm not sure if you are able to do this in the united states but in 
>> canada I have talked with my cell phone provider, explaining that I am 
>> visually impaired and unable to access normal directories. I have been 
>> able to get them to provide free 411 (information) on my cell phone. 
>> It is charged and then refunded in typical cell phone billing 
>> confusion. :) I'm pretty sure that I've heard on other technology 
>> lists I have been on that cell phone providers in the states would do 
>> this as well. Regardless though, it is a good practice to have the 
>> non-emergency police number in your phones contacts. (I need to do 
>> this myself)
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Criminal Justice Major Extraordinaire <orleans24 at comcast.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:44 pm
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] nagdu  using 911 for access denial?
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> 
>>> Hi, Marion,
>>> Excellent and great suggestion.
>>> I've used directory assistance on my cel phone before which did help.
>>> As for the price of directory assistance, it actually went up to 
>>> $1.50 here in Colorado.
>>> am not sure about it in other states here in the U.S.
>>> I have my local Fire Department, Paramedic and Police Departments 
>>> programmed into my contacts on my cel phone.
>>> If I remember correctly but probably don't 9 1 1 is also programmed 
>>> to where I just speed dial by pressing the 9key and holding it down 
>>> to where I'll automatically get connected.
>>> Toll free numbers are great for organizations as it does help cut 
>>> down on long-distance charges.
>>> Bibi and retired Odie
>>> the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
>>> because he behaves like a wolf at times
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