Re: Handling phone loss

From	chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android, uk.telecom
Subject	Re: Handling phone loss
Date	2015-09-08 09:47 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<msm77e$9uj$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 06/09/2015 22:24, Bob F wrote:
> Axel Berger wrote:
>> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>> However, no UK network will accept an emergency call from a mobile
>>> without a SIM. They didn't want people buying SIM-less mobiles just
>>> to make emergency calls, because it would generate a lot of such
>>> calls which are not emergencies,
>>
>> Originally they did allow just that and old manuals explicitly said
>> so. But too many idiots abused the possibility just to test used
>> phones, they had to stop it. The real problem is that at least in
>> Germany, not any SIM will do, it has to be a valid one. Most vendors
>> of prepaid cards demand a minimum of action and break the card if not
>> used for typically three months. Many old people have bought a phone
>> just for emergencies, charged up the prepaid card once, and then
>> never used it. (They do keep the battery charged.) Should an
>> emergency occur all their phones will be duds. Those predpaid vendors
>> willingly accept the death of helpless people just to increase their
>> profits.
>
> It isn't that way in the USA.
>

No. People die in spectacularly violent ways over there...

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Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 10:32 +0100
  Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 10:49 +0100
    Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:25 +0200
  Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-03 09:58 +0000
    Re: Handling phone loss Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 11:27 +0100
    Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 11:48 +0100
      Re: Handling phone loss Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-09-03 13:49 +0000
        Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 15:31 +0100
          Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-03 17:44 +0000
            Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 09:04 +0100
              Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-04 12:52 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss "Woody" <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-04 15:29 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-09-05 18:31 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Axel Berger <Axel_Berger@B.Maus.De> - 2015-09-06 17:02 +0200
                Re: Handling phone loss "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:24 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 09:47 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 09:05 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 16:20 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 23:12 +0100
            Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-04 19:34 +0000
              Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-04 20:44 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-05 16:02 +0000
              Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-04 20:22 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-05 16:04 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-05 18:53 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss BugHunter <bughunter@com.invalid> - 2015-09-05 20:57 +0200
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:27 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 14:00 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 15:26 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 16:46 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-06 13:25 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-06 14:36 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 15:21 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss David Taylor <davidt-news11@yadt.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:00 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-08 10:00 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 20:41 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 12:44 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 20:25 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 22:41 -0700
          Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:29 +0200
        Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:27 +0200
    Re: Handling phone loss F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-07 09:47 +1000
      Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:37 +0100
      Re: Handling phone loss Albert Hirsch <doc@treadstone.net> - 2015-09-07 10:17 -0400
      Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-07 22:24 +0200
  Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 15:37 +0100

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