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Re: "Emergency service only"

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micky wrote:
> Last month, using an Android phone on ATT, a Gophone,, I tried to call
> my nephew on his home phone (FWIW, he has no cell phone.)    But it
> appears his father changed the phone number when I wasn't looking, so
> I had the wrong number.   I called and it changed to the screen it
> uses during dialing, but a moment after that it changed to some other
> screen and clearly wasn't dialing.   The possible dialing period was
> only a second or two.    But I got no message, no cell phone
> equivalent of "The number you have reached is not available." I was
> using a headset but I got nothing aural either.
>
> I did this 3 times and after the third time, a message displayed on
> the top line (the notification line) that said "Emergency service
> only" or almost that.    Isn't that the message they give when
> someone hasn't paid his bill, or he's switched his contract to a
> newer phone and the older phone is only useful to call the police,
> fire, ambulance?
>
> I assumed what had happened is that I buy 100 dollar gophone cards
> that last for 365 days, and that the time period had expired (I
> hadn't made other calls that day, none since the previous day.)
>
> If the message doesn't mean that I'm no longer eligible to make phone
> calls, what does it mean?
>
> I was in the basement of a new, 10-story building, so there was some
> iron above me, but if I had no bars and no signal, there would have
> been no cryptic "Emergency service only" message either, right??
>
> Later in the day the phone worked fine.
>
> Thanks a lot for any help you can give.

That's the message I get when there's not a cell tower in range . We get it 
a lot out here in the woods ... no coverage at all down here in The Holler . 
It's spotty on the road into town .

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"Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-16 17:55 -0400
  Re: "Emergency service only" "Terry Coombs" <snag_one@msn.com> - 2015-06-16 19:28 -0500
    Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-16 21:21 -0400
      Re: "Emergency service only" "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2015-06-16 21:39 -0400
        Re: "Emergency service only" Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-17 12:09 -0500
          Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-17 14:28 -0400
            Re: "Emergency service only" Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-18 10:38 -0500
    Re: "Emergency service only" sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2015-06-18 07:00 -0700
      Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-18 18:20 -0400
  Re: "Emergency service only" Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.net> - 2015-06-16 21:50 -0400
    Re: "Emergency service only" "Terry Coombs" <snag_one@msn.com> - 2015-06-16 21:53 -0500
    Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-16 22:54 -0400
      Re: "Emergency service only" danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2015-06-17 02:59 +0000
        Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-18 03:01 -0400
          Re: "Emergency service only" Stormin Mormon <cayoung61@hotmail.com> - 2015-06-18 07:40 -0400
          Re: "Emergency service only" "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-06-18 10:35 -0400
            Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-18 21:23 -0400
        Re: "Emergency service only" sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2015-06-18 07:08 -0700
          Re: "Emergency service only" danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2015-06-18 15:29 +0000
            Re: "Emergency service only" Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-18 14:16 -0500
          Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-18 18:34 -0400
  Re: "Emergency service only" Tekkie® <Tekkie@comcast.net> - 2015-06-17 16:18 -0400
  Re: "Emergency service only" sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2015-06-18 06:58 -0700
    Re: "Emergency service only" micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-06-18 18:28 -0400

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