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So if you ignore your cellphone bills long enough, they disconnect your service.
Who knew ...
Anyway, today I went to get it restarted and also to ask about possible alternate plans. I have very little need for calling services -- the only people I'm likely to call on my cellphone are at work, and that'll be to tell them there's a five-car pileup at X and Y streets and I'll be there when I get there.
Beyond that ... I use data as if it's going to be outlawed tomorrow. We have the typical 15-minute break -- not enough time to invest in an actual book, so I go online to scroll through Google and whatnot. And the data over-use was killing me.
Associate tells me I have a very old plan -- shaddup and get offa my lawn, you young whippersnapper -- and ultimately signs me up for a plan that, on the surface, looks as if I'm paying a bit more each month ... but apparently the amount of data I'm allowed under this new plan is likely to be well beyond anything I'm going to need or use. So ultimately it will bring my monthly costs down, since I won't get the $20 "excess data charge" anymore, nor will I get the "data has been shut off until the next cycle starts, in three weeks" messages.
I should add that this very old plan is actually maybe five or six years old ... but I guess in techno-time that's the Jurassic Era.
Never crossed my mind until the disconnect that hey, MAYBE there might be a BETTER plan that I could use on this phone.
Who knew ...
Anyway, today I went to get it restarted and also to ask about possible alternate plans. I have very little need for calling services -- the only people I'm likely to call on my cellphone are at work, and that'll be to tell them there's a five-car pileup at X and Y streets and I'll be there when I get there.
Beyond that ... I use data as if it's going to be outlawed tomorrow. We have the typical 15-minute break -- not enough time to invest in an actual book, so I go online to scroll through Google and whatnot. And the data over-use was killing me.
Associate tells me I have a very old plan -- shaddup and get offa my lawn, you young whippersnapper -- and ultimately signs me up for a plan that, on the surface, looks as if I'm paying a bit more each month ... but apparently the amount of data I'm allowed under this new plan is likely to be well beyond anything I'm going to need or use. So ultimately it will bring my monthly costs down, since I won't get the $20 "excess data charge" anymore, nor will I get the "data has been shut off until the next cycle starts, in three weeks" messages.
I should add that this very old plan is actually maybe five or six years old ... but I guess in techno-time that's the Jurassic Era.
Never crossed my mind until the disconnect that hey, MAYBE there might be a BETTER plan that I could use on this phone.
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