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it depends on your credit. if you have good credit it should be only 80 a month for you if you’re hearing and 50 if you’re deaf (they have a discount program for deaf people)

if you have ‘ok’ credit they raise the monthly fee depending on how ‘ok’ your credit is plus you have to pay a deposit

if you have bad credit they wont let you pay monthly

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I frankly am disgusted that not a single politician I can think of cares at all about the ever growing number of hearing impaired and/or deaf folks in this nation. Medicare and corporate health insurance plans have never covered hearing aids at all and now they are running at $5000 a pair for some of us. So I am not shocked really that now they want to squeeze even more out of the deaf who for the most part find it very dificult to find high paying jobs. The internet relay was just too easy and if crooks were taking over, all they had to do was have us fill out a form and attach a note from whomever and then assign US – not all of our friends – a ten digit number which of course tells the world we are disabled (their term) and with electronics those same crooks will be able to find out where all the houses of silence are. Get good, new locks and just keep shopping – and screaming.

No one with any “defect” should have to purchase a smart phone and pay these outrageous rates and yet the notion that we are by choice “unproductive” in the sense of tossing in tax money seems to jusitfy not wasting time on us. Do remind your representatives that at the moment at least, deaf people are permitted to vote and are sick and tired of being targeted as sources of income for the government and the businesses that “support” the deaf. I stepped on a hearing aid once and found one small chip and a few wires in a pink plastic case and wondered …… why so much when so much of the work on sound is done in universities and by the government itself?

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