That cell phone business started with reagan.
What the woman in the video is referring to, is actually the so-called
Link-Up program, created way back in 1984 during Reagan, initially targeted at providing landlines, so poor people who can't otherwise
afford it have some connection with the world, and has been an item on your phone bill for more than two decades now. When cell phones became the norm, the program expanded to include them with carrier service as well, and was renamed
Lifeline, since the idea was that everybody has access to the 911 emergency service at all times.
That was, however, done back in 2008, before Obama took office, without regards for the ballooning costs, which mushroomed from $772 million in 2008, to $1.6 billion last year for the Lifeline program's more than 10 million low-income subscribers. A 2011 audit revealed that 269, 000 of them were receiving free phone and service from two or more carriers.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Whats-the-deal-with-the-free-Obama-phones-Mystery-explained_id34973