AT&T Disabling my 4G Capable Phone, Why?
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Help! Can you track a lost iPhone?
Comments (16)Akpparently this won't help you, but this is my DD's recent email: "This is why technology is awesome: I lost my phone at a concert last night. As soon as I knew it was gone, I started calling it. Whoever had it was not answering. I set it to "lost phone mode" from a friend's phone, which sent a display message to my phone saying that it was lost and giving a contact number to reach me. This morning I used the Find My iPhone app, which pinned it to a house in Littleton, giving me an address and a map. After I filed a police report online, I called the Littleton police, who went to the house (which turned out to be a duplex, but Find My iPhone was pretty specific, pinning my phone's location to the northern unit in the building. I took a screen shot of map and texted it to the officer.). So the cops walked into the apartment and let the ladies living there know that they'd tracked a stolen phone to their house. There was some go-around, but after they were told that a stolen phone carried a grand larceny charge (which actually isn't true, the cop was bluffing), they managed to find the phone and give it to the officer. So I got my phone back and didn't have to drop $400 at the Verizon store"!...See MoreNeed very basic cell phone
Comments (44)I can't possibly imagine being without a means of communication at any time, regardless of where I am and that's what I grew up with personally. Yes, I know humans survived for thousands of years without phones, they also survived without the internet, electricity, modern plumbing, etc. It doesn't mean I want to live that way. I was 17 when I had my first ticket and wreck because I rear ended someone on a country road. The deputy said he could drive me to the city line but that's it. I lived almost 10 miles out of town and had no cash for a payphone. The guy I rear ended was so kind to me. He had a mobile phone and let me use it to call my mom. Unfortunately, she happened to be in the middle of one of her 2 hour gabfests with her sister and call waiting was disabled due to dial up internet. This man was kind enough to wait with me til the tow truck showed up and then he gave me a lift home. I swore I would get a cell phone as soon as I was able to sign a contract, and I did. I've followed and upgraded my phone continuously as the technology has improved. I remember having to stop at a local gas station to buy a map for the town to find out where I was going, having to find a phone book and look through it to find the right business to call, having to call businesses to find out their hours of operation. No more, thanks to smart phones. I truly don't understand the vitriol some have towards evolving technology. I get lost on vacation, I don't need to stop and buy a map and ask the locals, I don't need to buy a fancy GPS device, I use the power of the internet in the palm of my hand to get my answers. I'm not "glued to my phone" BUT it is a tool, a very powerful one at that, why would I purposefully NOT use it? I switched to Project Fi from Google a few months ago and it has been the cheapest phone plan I've ever had and provides everything I want. We were previously with Sprint and we paid 150 a month for 2 phones with unlimited data. We now pay less than 70 for 2 phones. The downside is you have to purchase a current gen phone (either the Nexus 5x or the Nexus 6P) at full price. (Not a problem for us as our old phones WERE old and outdated) The upside is our unlimited cell costs only 20 bucks a month per line, plus 10 dollars per gig of data. If you don't use all the data, you are credited back on the next bill for the unused data. Almost all our data usage is at home over our own Wi-Fi so we have received a credit on every bill since we signed up. Google's Project Fi works over wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile networks so we have better coverage than we did with only Sprint. If you think you might ever use data (aka the internet) from your phone and you can afford the upfront cost of a new smartphone, I strongly encourage you to look at Project Fi....See MorePrepaid cell phone comments
Comments (47)"In my area, and I believe elsewhere, Tracfone doesn't have any brick and mortar locations." Well, duh. That's why I told Anne to start with Verizon. It is Verizon that actually owns the phone number that was assigned to Anne's Tracfone. Tracfone doesn't own any phone numbers. It leases them from the carriers in the areas where Tracfone "provides service." Calls made from/to Tracfones use cell towers that are owned and maintained by the carriers whose lines Tracfone leases. "I know of and about the tasks you thought you'd snow me with." I wasn't attempting to snow you with or about anything. I was only attempting to find out how much you actually know about the way voice communications work. You say that you (with consultants) set the specifications for systems and equipment that was needed for your office. Big whoop. All that means is that you sat there and said things like, "Well, we need a system that can handle 142 calls per hour with 15 agents taking the calls at any given time. We need a system that can route callers to the agent(s) who are most capable of answering their questions. We need telephone sets on the employees' desks that will let them know who is calling and from what number." You helped establish the minimum specifications for a system needed by the company for which you work. I, on the other hand, determined the needs of the agencies/cities, worked with those agencies/cities to set their specs, and then designed the system that would meet/exceed those specifications. "I was a manager, not a worker-bee. I know of and about the tasks you thought you'd snow me with. There's nothing wrong with being a worker-bee but that isn't what I did." You are so condescending. If you were a worker bee, you would have known that the Caller ID information (which appears to be the root of Anne_CT's issue) is assigned to the line at the Central Office. Being a manager, you know only that Caller ID exists and that it means a person's name and phone number will show up on the recipient's phone. Yes, of course I have heard of ROLM, and I know what a PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is. Did you know that a PBX is actually a computer? Do you know what a trunk line is? Do you know the difference between Automatic Call Distribution and Uniform Call Distribution? Do you know what an IVR is and how it works? How about PRI and ISDN? Yeah, you may have heard of these things, but without doing a Google search you don't really know what they are, how they work, or how to program them because you were a manager and not a worker bee. When someone calls 911 from their home phone, the address shows up on the 911 operator's screen. Even if the caller says nothing, the dispatcher knows where to send the first responders. That's because the address information is keyed into the OE at the CO by a phone company employee. But what happens when a 911 call is originated from a business? If it's Spiffy Dry Cleaners, it's not much of an issue because the address (including Suite number as appropriate) is keyed in. But what happens when it is a business that has multiple telephones throughout multiple floors in an office building? Ever think about that? Absent specific 911 location information for each telephone number in the business, all calls originating from that business will show up with just the business address on the screen of a 911 operator. If that business uses a PBX, the PBX administrator needs to key the information into the system. Since trunk lines are shared lines, this can be a pain in the patoot. Each employee is assigned an extension number, and that extension has to be programmed into the 911 information for that trunk line. And if the employee changes physical offices within the business but keeps the same extension, the PBX administrator has to update the 911 ID information for that extension. If the business with multiple telephones throughout multiple floors in an office building uses, for example, Centrex lines for each phone, and those phone lines are assigned to a specific floor and cubicle or office number, that info would need to be keyed in by the local Telco. Sounds easy enough so far, right? But when someone on the 11th floor of a building in cubicle 136 has a heart attack while working late one night but manages to call 911 from their phone before passing out, how will the first responders know where on the 11th floor cubicle 136 is located? Different states, cities within those states, and even fire districts within the cities, may have their own standards as to how they want the location to be designated. But in my area, the main entrance to the building was the starting point, From there, the building is divided into quadrants, with Q1 being to the immediate left of the main entrance, then proceeding in a clockwise direction so that Q4 is to the right of the main entrance. Think of it this way -- If cubicle 136 on the 11th floor is in the northeast area of the building, "northeast" means nothing to a firefighter if the floor is filled with smoke and no one can tell up from down or right from left. So, for 911 purposes, cubicle 136's location would be designated as --- What? Ah, this all depends on which direction the main entrance to the building faces. If it faces west, then cubicle 136 is in Q2, but if the main entrance faces east, cubicle 136 is in Q4. (And if the building is very large those quadrants may need to be further divided into sub-quads.) Obviously, with the way folks move around within businesses while still keeping the same phone number, most of the time the 911 designation information never gets changed. Gotta hope no one suffers an emergency when no one else is around to direct the first responders where to go.... And it appeared to me that in Anne's case, her phone number was originally a landline assigned to "John Smith" and it carried his name and address as the 911 information, with his name showing up on the Caller ID as the person making the call. Then John ported the landline number to a wireless number and no one changed the 911 information because the number was still assigned to the same guy. Then, when John gave up the number (whether it was by his death and the account being closed, or by any other reason), the number remained a wireless number and no one even thought about changing the 911 information because it isn't usually put into wireless accounts -- because wireless calls to 911 ping off the closest cell tower for routing to a 911 dispatch office. By the very nature of wireless phones, your billing address doesn't matter one iota when it comes to sending first responders. I'm done. I can only hope that Anne comes home happy from her outing with her son to get her issue resolved....See MoreUpdate on my iPhone saga
Comments (25)I'm home with my new phone and have everything pretty much setup. Most everything transferred wirelessly at the Apple store but some apps required reconfiguration including my Ring doorbell which physically required me to go outside to the device. It took an hour for the stuff to transfer so while that was going on I played around with a demo phone and learned more about the 11 Pro including how to get the top half of the screen to come down to the bottom so you can cover the large screen with one hand. I had seen someone do that with an older phone but forgot about it until today. Also learned that the phone uses infrared to ID your face at night so I guess that won't be a problem. Now just waiting for my case to be delivered from Amazon today and then I'm good to go. We usually buy our phones at the AT&T store but I'm such an early bird this time that they didn't have any of this model in stock so I had to go to the Apple store. I thought I might get the green color but they were out of that so I got gold. I've always had grey or black so something different and I got a clear sparkly case so I'll be relatively blingy compared to the past. That place was busy as ever - not quite as bad in the middle of a week day - one of the joys of retirement....See MoreElmer J Fudd
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