A few nice example business plan images I found:
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Photomontage of Overview of the south hangar, including B-29 "Enola Gay" and Concorde
Image by Chris Devers
BellSouth and AT&T Hang Up On Pay Phones....
Image by MarkGregory007
FROM BELLSOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS DEPT.... AT&T website February, 2001
Location Provider Payphone Services From BellSouth To Be Discontinued By December 31, 2002
Due to downward trends in payphone usage, BellSouth plans to discontinue providing services to its payphone location provider customers by December 31, 2002. BellSouth began notifying these customers nearly two years in advance to allow sufficient opportunity for the identification of other technologies, or the selection of an alternative provider from hundreds of independent payphone providers in the southeast.
Payphone usage declines are the primary drivers of BellSouth's decision to exit the business. Prior to making this decision, BellSouth carefully evaluated market trends in the payphone industry. These trends indicated customers are opting for new technology options, such as wireless telephones and personal communications devices.Existing Payphone AccountsBellSouth is currently not selling any of its routes, accounts or locations to other payphone services providers.
We will comply with existing agreements with our location provider customers and expect reciprocal arrangements on the part of these customers.BellSouth Business Payphone ServiceBellSouth provides Business Payphone Service to customers who need a payphone for the convenience of their own customers and employees. With this service, customers can have a payphone installed at their site by paying a one-time installation charge and a monthly maintenance fee.BellSouth Business Payphone Service will be offered to customers until December 31, 2002.
For additional information, call our BellSouth Public Communications customer service center at 1-800-451-2646.Sales of Surplus Payphone EquipmentBellSouth will sell its surplus and scrap payphone equipment once this equipment is completely removed from location provider premises. The BellSouth Investment Recovery Center (BSIRC) is authorized to process sales of this equipment to interested parties.Customers who are interested in purchasing surplus payphone equipment can access the BSIRC web site at surplus.bellsouth.com. Once there, select "RFQs." This is the site where all payphone equipment sales and bids will be posted. Customers are encouraged to keep checking this site because updated information on equipment availability will be posted from time to time.
Specific requests for information on the purchase of surplus payphone equipment may be e-mailed to the BSIRC at the following address: surplus.bellsouth@bellsouth.com.Sales of Payphone Equipment in Existing LocationsBellSouth works directly with its location provider customers – and/or their new payphone providers who have a valid contract or Letter of Agreement – on the sale of payphone equipment in existing locations. This helps to ensure a smooth transition when payphone service is changed over to the new payphone services provider.BellSouth location providers may initiate this process by contacting the BellSouth Payphone Service Center at 1-800-451-2646.
Certification as a Payphone ProviderSome location provider customers may want to provide public payphone services at their own locations as an Independent Payphone Provider (IPP). If you desire to become an IPP, you should take steps to ensure that you comply with any applicable state regulatory requirements such as IPP certification. Such requirements vary by state.In BellSouth franchised areas, you may contact the BellSouth Independent Payphone Provider Center via the following toll-free numbers:780-2171 (for calls originating in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina)557-2647 (for calls originating in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee).
For Additional InformationFor more information, please call our BellSouth Public Communications customer service center at 1-800-451-2646 to speak with one of our representatives. Or, if you prefer, you may e-mail us at public.majorac@bellsouth.com.
AT&T ANNOUNCES WITHDRAW FROM PAY PHONE BUSINESS
San Antonio, Texas, December 3, 2007 (Source: Internet Google search)
AT&T announced its intention to withdraw from operating pay phones by end of 2008. AT&T has experienced significant pressure from reduced pay phone usage, because of the growth of wireless phones and personal communication devices. Existing contracts and customer service commitments will continue to be honored during the period that the business is being phased out.
AT&T plans to phase out both public pay phones and phones provided under contracts at government correctional facilities. All customers will receive advance notification of specific plans as well as information on other potential providers and product options.
The move affects AT&T pay phones in the company's 13-state service area only. BellSouth Corp., which was acquired by AT&T Inc. in late 2006, previously exited the pay phone business in its nine-state service area.
About the phone....
This is an example of a "Fortress" pay phone by BellSouth. The Fortress is a nickname for the single-slot pay phone developed by the Bell System in the late 1960's. The name now applies to any style of single-slot, coin line controlled pay phone.
The Western Electric Fortress (originally made by WECO/Bell/AT&T) is now known as the Olympian 5501. It is currently owned, manufactured, and refurbished by QuorTech Solutions. The Western Electric style payphone is the industry standard and most widely used payphone in the USA.
THE GREATEST FRAUD AND CHARLATAN OF THE YOUR LIFETIME............. IS LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE
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April 14, 2011
Obama's Strategy? He Doesn't Have One
By Neil Snyder
One thing stands out in my mind about President Obama's so-called "budget strategy." He doesn't have one. You can see evidence of Mr. Obama's strategic vacuum in everything he does. Take the much ballyhooed budget speech he gave yesterday at George Washington University, for example. It contradicts the message he delivered as a part of his 10-year budget just a few short weeks ago. All of the evidence points to the fact that Obama's "budget strategy" is simply a kneejerk reaction to Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisconsin) budget proposal which really does reflect strategic thinking. It's been said, and it's true, that talk is cheap. Talk seems to be the only arrow in Mr. Obama's quiver.
The president's speech droned on for about an hour and when it was over, the most memorable thing about it was its lack of specificity. The phrase "my plan," which he used repeatedly is not a substitute for specifics, and the examples he used to support his "plan" were woefully inadequate. Take infrastructure spending, for instance. The president explained that he would spend on infrastructure. Who's against that? No one. Problem is, infrastructure spending was supposed to be the primary focus of his stimulus package. Two years ago, we were told about the "shovel-ready projects" that would get us out of the Great Recession and fix our crumbling roads and bridges in the process. Two years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, what does the record show? We still have crumbling roads and bridges, precious little construction work, and more deficits and debt than any generation of Americans has ever seen with more to come. That's not strategy. It's business as usual. Paraphrasing Albert Einstein, "The quality of thinking that got us here won't get us out of here."
If the president had a strategy for dealing with our deficit and debt problems, he would have presented it long ago -- in detail. He could have used his budget commission's plan to get our fiscal house in order as the launching pad to introduce his strategy, and he would have if he had one. President Obama's silence at that critical moment was deafening, and yesterday's Johnny-come-lately gimmick was nothing more than an attempt to avoid the appearance of incompetence -- a trick that is becoming increasingly difficult for him to pull off even among his once ardent supporters. The president's "plan" to call on legislators to find a solution to our deficit and debt problems by the end of June a week after Rep. Ryan submitted his plan to the House of Representatives is laughable. Again, that's not strategy. It's just empty words.
Mr. Obama's strategic void has been on display in the Middle East since the Arab Spring began in January. For instance, consider Egypt. Obama stood with our long-time ally, Hosni Mubarak, and then he didn't. Then he stood with him again until the political winds shifted, at which point Obama announced that it was time for Mr. Mubarak to go. Our president has demonstrated the same lack of strategic resolve on matters related to Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Our president's inability to grasp strategic concepts is so pervasive that the King of Saudi Arabia said recently that President Obama is a threat to Saudi Arabia's internal security. I think he's a threat to our internal security as well.
Mr. Obama did have a strategy for getting elected to the highest office in the land, but it wasn't his. Whose plan it was remains a mystery, as does almost everything else about our president, from the hospital where he was born to his SAT and LSAT scores to his academic performance records to his golf handicap. Even so, the facts are beginning to emerge. Take his first autobiography, for example. Jack Cashill's Deconstructing Obama suggests strongly that Obama didn't write it and that Bill Ayers probably did.
It's looking a lot like someone or some group carefully orchestrated a comprehensive strategy to take an obscure Illinois lawyer specializing in community organizing from nowhere to the White House. That plan will go down in the annals of history as a strategic masterpiece -- a stroke of genius. No one deft enough to devise a scheme for Obama's political ascension could be so strategically clumsy in office.
A few days ago, Mort Zuckerman, a publishing and real estate magnate, said on CNBC that Donald Trump's autobiography would be the greatest love story ever told. Mr. Trump wants to be president, and he's distancing himself from other wannabes by calling into question Mr. Obama's place of birth. I don't support Trump's candidacy, but I applaud his willingness to challenge Mr. Obama to come clean and divulge the facts. That's something Republican stalwarts haven't done; it's something the mainstream media failed to do; and it's something ordinary citizens need to know. The unraveling of Mr. Obama's past will be interesting to say the least, but this much is certain already. Barack Obama, a.k.a Barry Soetoro, is not a strategist. At best, he's a skillful opportunist.
