KMOX's Paul Harris Features AT&T/Iraq Story

KMOX, the leading AM talk station in St. Louis, has caught on to the story of AT&T ripping off soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was invited to be on the Paul Harris show today, March 13. Paul had read the details and was vary familiar with the issues. You can listen to the show on their website here .

St. Louis is close to Ft. Leonard Wood, and has thousands of military families in the area. A lively discussion ensued, so we expect to here more about the story from Paul.

-gene

I'm Mad as Hell, and I am not going to take this anymore

Remember this line from one of the best movies of all time, "Network"? This sentiment is descriptive of the response we are getting on our most recent update on the AT&T ripoff of our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. in the February 15, 2006 issue of The Prepaid Press. We heard from some old friends on this. Well, not that old, but we have known Tom & Mary Evslin for a long time, over ten years. The Evslins started ITXC, which merged with Teleglobe, the Canadian telco, which was recently bought by VSNL, the Indian telephone company.

Tom is so incensed by at&t and its handling of this, that he says in his blog, "If I sound foaming-at-the-mouth mad it’s because I am." And, although I have never seen Tom angry, I somehow feel I don't want to, he is a very intense person. His blog site, Fractals of Change, has the slogan, "Nothing great has ever been accomplished without irrational exuberance."

If I were Ed Whitacre, CEO of at&t, I would be concerned about irrational exuberance coming at me, foaming-at-the-mouth mad.

-gene

(by the way, the AT&T and at&t is not a typo. The new AT&T, which is really SBC, now calls itself at&t)