"Emergency Calls Only" message
We've had ATT contract cell phone for many years & a little over a year ago I got an ATT GoPhone just for a backup. There have been a couple of times in the past year, on both phones, that we get the above message when trying to call out. We never got this message on previous cells.
The first time it happened on the reg. cell I was trying to call a dr. friend to her cell that I had not used before but she had called us from same #. I thought maybe somehow since she was dr. that was the reason and never thought anymore about it. Then it happened on the GoPhone. I thought I'd forgotten to put more $$ on it, but that was not the case as I was able to use it later. Then today DH tried to call me on main cell and he got same message. He was outside and said he had 4 bars for signal.
Can anyone explain why? Is it the phones -- both are Samsungs (which my previous contract cell was also & we never had this happen), or ATT service? TIA!
The first time it happened on the reg. cell I was trying to call a dr. friend to her cell that I had not used before but she had called us from same #. I thought maybe somehow since she was dr. that was the reason and never thought anymore about it. Then it happened on the GoPhone. I thought I'd forgotten to put more $$ on it, but that was not the case as I was able to use it later. Then today DH tried to call me on main cell and he got same message. He was outside and said he had 4 bars for signal.
Can anyone explain why? Is it the phones -- both are Samsungs (which my previous contract cell was also & we never had this happen), or ATT service? TIA!
