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free_radical
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Jan 15, 2021

Apocalypse almost

Cell phone stoped working,
showed msg Emergy calls only,

Couldnt call my provider as I have only mobile and no landline.

Call 911 ask if theres some city wide power shortage that would affect mobile network,,no theres not.

Had to go shoping so stoped at Home depot to use the public phone land line,doesnt exist anymore all were removed last year !

Went to Superstore no land lines either,wtf!?

Luckily there was mobile phone booth so ask them for advice,they call my number and says it doesnt exist,my phone doesnt even ring.

Drive to the mall where Virgin mobile my provider has a booth,
They have no clue whats wrong either..
use their phone to call main ofice and after good 45 minutes wait reach the tech help,
Says shut the phone take out Sim card put back in restart,
phone works again just fine,,

Live and learn
Was lucky this didnt hapen while travelin someplace far off road,would be long walk home not much fun in winter tho
  • For the past many years only drug dealers and marital cheaters used pay phones. Vandalism played a part as well.
  • free radical wrote:
    What bugs me why they scrapped all public phones?

    Because everyone has a cell phone. When was the last time you used a public pay phone?
  • I have two phones but carry only one,good thing is even without working sim card you can still call 911,so no big deal really,just slightly inconvenient,all this tech is great when it works,but when it stops its pita,,lol

    Ive heard a story about homeles dude sleeping in the bushes and strong wind droped a tree on him and luckily he had old flip phone so called 911 and got saved,,911 works even without any phone contract.

    What bugs me why they scrapped all public phones?
  • Are you 'solo"?

    We have 2 cells phones so odds of one failing is less of a problem
    *Unless system wide outage