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Message: <blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 1985719" data-attributes="member: 7488">Your statement is very true about overhead and businesses in general.  About the cell phones specifically, they do have very low overhead now because the infrastructure is already in place and in a sense, subsidized by the regular cell phone subscribers.  The Lifeline program has the government pay relatively small fee for each phone - I think $9 or so for non-Indian land and an admittedly ridiculous $30 for Indian land phones (includes OK of course).9 dollars is pretty damn cheap.  If the phone companies make enough profit on $9 per line per month to go out and solicit new business with vans and pop-up shops outside corner stores, you know the overhead has to be really, really low.</blockquote>