Hi all,

Well, what can I say, today was a nightmare.

You all probably know about the outage with cell service on Monday and 
today, right?

Verizon had a cable and it was damaged!

Anyway, mine was today, and I had no phone, and with my low blood sugar, 
I *HAVE* to have a phone, or I'm dead.

So, I went to T Mobile, and signed up for their service. Well, the 
Samsung Gusto 3 phone could not be used with T Mobile. It had no sim 
card, those phones have no sim card slot, so, Verizon, just set it up 
for me, 3 years ago when I bought it.

So, you know how we were told we could always have our phone numbers? 
Not quite!!!

I had google voice, and when T Mobile asked for porting it over, I had 
to give them permission to do it, and I could not give them permission 
because the computer didn't work, for me to grant permission.

So, I'm one who has a new phone number, the heck with continuing to keep 
my phone number I've had for the last 20 years, they don't care anyway, 
what we, the public, want.

So, I quit. I'm not going to go chasing people all over the US and 
Canada and giving my new number, if people cannot get ahold of me, oh 
well, I'm not going to play the chase game.

So, the public has been lied to, about portable phone numbers.

Second thing, email addresses. Don't believe the bull from those 
providers who say, "you can always keep your email address, always, it's 
yours". Well, not quite.

Right now, I have an AT&T address, but sometime this year or next year, 
I will have to give that up, so, there's another lie, that we all in the 
public have been told. "oh yes, you can always keep your email address, 
forever if you want, absolutely."

Heck no, you can't.

I'm going to try 1 more time, tomorrow, and go to T Moble and see if I 
can get my old phone number back, that I've had, for 20 years now!

But we have been lied to, people, about email addresses, and, about 
keeping our wonderful phone numbers.

/Then, I had to get a new phone, so, I got the Alcatel go flip phone!

I'm going to try to see if I can find a braille manual. At least 
Samsung, had a fantastic braille manual for their gusto 3 phones. The 
Alcatel company, has no contact us page on their web site, so, I cannot 
contact them, so, so much for a manual, I will ask T Mobile if they have 
one, tomorrow, but they probably won't!

Harry, who doesn't give a darn about much  of anything at the moment, 
because companies do not care about the public in general


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