I remember the days of roaming. When you got charged big bucks for using another carrier’s system. You paid your carrier for the call, you paid the other carrier for the call and you paid a roaming fee.
One company tried to charge roaming fees to customers driving through their area because the phone connected to the “command channels” in their system even though a call was never made nor received.
So you’re in your home city and you park in a garage and it blocks the signal from your normal carrier and you make a call and it went to the only other carrier in your area, you got charged twice for the call and a roaming fee.
Just went through ‘back button’ Hell. Motorola phone battery got pregnant and split the case. Becoming a classic story. Since we only use those phones about 1/mo if that, in case my house bound spouse needs me. Decided to go back to earlier style flip phone. Much lighter to haul around and about all we need.
Phone arrived with a 15″ × 12″ panel of warnings, legal glibbity, and denials of responsibility + 2×8″ section with bare minimum and poor illustrations for inserting battery and sim card. NO instructions for function keys, entering contacts, setting up main page, or how to handle/delete unneeded apps. Used back button so many times, it’s already looking worn and that was just yesterday.
Pitiful effort to ‘push’ users away from older flip phones and into new over-priced toys. If I could find one that only makes/receives calls, has speech to text, and doesn’t cost what I paid for my second car 60 years ago, I’d get it in a minute.
I switched to Consumer Cellular several years ago and haven’t had a dropped call or any issues since. Unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and 1GB data under $28/month tax included. I did have more data but wasn’t using it so I dropped it down. Motorola phone.
Sandpiper. That is ALL I use my cell phone for. Phone calls. I don’t even text. If a person does not have the time to call someone, where do they have the time to type a text? I also do not cruise the net, play games, search for something. That is what my laptop and desktop are for. My car has GPS if I need it.
Imagine about 1 month ago
Modern fairytales.
dflak about 1 month ago
I remember the days of roaming. When you got charged big bucks for using another carrier’s system. You paid your carrier for the call, you paid the other carrier for the call and you paid a roaming fee.
One company tried to charge roaming fees to customers driving through their area because the phone connected to the “command channels” in their system even though a call was never made nor received.
So you’re in your home city and you park in a garage and it blocks the signal from your normal carrier and you make a call and it went to the only other carrier in your area, you got charged twice for the call and a roaming fee.
sandpiper about 1 month ago
Just went through ‘back button’ Hell. Motorola phone battery got pregnant and split the case. Becoming a classic story. Since we only use those phones about 1/mo if that, in case my house bound spouse needs me. Decided to go back to earlier style flip phone. Much lighter to haul around and about all we need.
Phone arrived with a 15″ × 12″ panel of warnings, legal glibbity, and denials of responsibility + 2×8″ section with bare minimum and poor illustrations for inserting battery and sim card. NO instructions for function keys, entering contacts, setting up main page, or how to handle/delete unneeded apps. Used back button so many times, it’s already looking worn and that was just yesterday.
Pitiful effort to ‘push’ users away from older flip phones and into new over-priced toys. If I could find one that only makes/receives calls, has speech to text, and doesn’t cost what I paid for my second car 60 years ago, I’d get it in a minute.
ladykat about 1 month ago
I’ve never had a reception problem with my current phone.
ncorgbl about 1 month ago
I switched to Consumer Cellular several years ago and haven’t had a dropped call or any issues since. Unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and 1GB data under $28/month tax included. I did have more data but wasn’t using it so I dropped it down. Motorola phone.
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
It is always funny to hear people whining about how they have temporarily lost world-wide communications.
cracker65 about 1 month ago
That’s a fairy tale for sure.
DawnQuinn1 about 1 month ago
Sandpiper. That is ALL I use my cell phone for. Phone calls. I don’t even text. If a person does not have the time to call someone, where do they have the time to type a text? I also do not cruise the net, play games, search for something. That is what my laptop and desktop are for. My car has GPS if I need it.