Cell Phones for Soldiers
June, 20th - 5:07 pm ET | posted by in AT&T
AT&T wireless store locations in the Northeast are now drop-off points for the Cell Phones for Soldiers charity founded by two Massachusetts teenagers. The proceeds from recycling are used to purchase prepaid phone cards and distribute them to soldiers serving overseas, allowing them to stay in touch with their families.
The teens, siblings from Norwell, MA, started the organization with $21 after hearing a report on the news about how much soldiers were spending to call home. Since they started in 2004, they have raised over $1 million and distributed over 75,000 phone cards to soldiers.
By the Fourth of July, all AT&T wireless store locations will be accepting cell phones for recycling. In addition, AT&T is donating 30,000 prepaid phone cards as well as volume discount pricing to the organization.
More information on donating and/or recycling your cell phone is available at Wirefly.org.
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Cell phones for soldiers isn’t a new program.
The fact that AT and T now collects old phones is news?
What are they even going to do with all of those old brick cell phones they’re going to get?