Harry,

I've had 3 different cell phone providers and didn't have to change a number.  Whenever you change cell phone providers, do some advance planning so you know you won't lose your contacts or e-mails.  Always ask the cell providers what type of interface they have.  Even if you did have to change your phone number, this is common.  What makes you think you are so special that you shouldn't have to change your phone number.  Have a backup plan so if you don't have cell service, you can use a land-line phone, or ask to use someone else's phone.  I also don't see what low blood sugar has to do with a phone unless you were using some app.  You can always call 911 from any phone if you need emergency medical care.

With regard to e-mail addresses, you can always open a gmail account through Google.  The accounts are free, and you can use them on any computer or phone.  This is what everybody else does whether they are blind or sighted.

Sometimes I think you don't understand that life isn't fair, and things don't always work out the way you want.  You need to think things through and stop whining on this list.  Nobody is going to feel sorry for you.

Dan

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> On Jun 20, 2017, at 10:55 PM, Harry Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 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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