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The Telecom Digest for Sep 3, 2015
Volume 34 : Issue 165 : "text" Format
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Re: What are my options? (Bill Horne)
Re: What are my options? (tlvp)

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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:39:48 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: What are my options? Message-ID: <20150902173948.GA26460@telecom.csail.mit.edu> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:56:59PM -0400, tlvp wrote: > I'd suggest you contact Page Plus I signed up for their $13/month plan, just to get the thing going, and they told me that the MEI was usable. However, evertime I call someone, they hear only a couple of words and then it cuts off. I waited 12 hours after I activated it, and the problem continues. Did this ever happen to anyone else? Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:32:14 -0400 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: What are my options? Message-ID: <1nb2hlj6aa6vl.sdp3wu0000ol.dlg@40tude.net> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:39:48 -0400, Bill Horne wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:56:59PM -0400, tlvp wrote: >> I'd suggest you contact Page Plus > > I signed up for their $13/month plan, just to get the thing going, and ... That's a good way to get started. You can always add a richer plan, or replace it with a simple $10/120-day deal, later. > they told me that the MEI was usable. However, evertime I call > someone, they hear only a couple of words and then it cuts off. That's not normal. Have you a Time/Temp info number (like the number 1-203-777-4647 formerly serving New Haven, before Frontier axed it)? If so, see whether you can maintain a connection with it for at least 50 seconds. Or try calling 1800Walmart or 1800Walgree[ns] or the like, so as to test connection duration. If such tests fail, I'd wager your handset is defective. In that case, try to transfer your PagePlus number to another handset (same cust service number will just swap MEIDs for you in their database). Apologies in advance for your lost $12 if indeed they turn out to be gone forever ... but I think this will resolve itself better than that. Cheers, and all best, -- tlvp -- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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