Charles, if it will help I have a very early CDMA brick phone that will work on Verizon and which is extremely difficult to lose. Also this model is not burdened with blueteeth, 3G or any of that sort of malarkey. As for the wired bakelite phone idea- nah, it'll never catch on- people are too threatened and unwilling to consider change. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
