Woman Gives Up Rotary Phone after 42 Years

An 82 year old woman, who had been renting her old rotary dial phone since the 1960's from AT&T (traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol T), at a rate of $29.10 every three months. Her children discovered how much she had been paying (estimated at many thousands) and had her give up the phone.

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