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Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones?

Daniel AJ Sokolov (sokolov@gmx.netnetnet.invalid)
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:32:04 +0200

Am 30.08.2005 16:31 schrieb William Warren:

> I just went through some of the same trouble, but for a different
> reason: I left my phone behind at my folk's house, which is about an
> hour's drive away, and tried to activate a spare Motorola 120C that a
> friend gave me a couple of months ago.

> Verizon flat-out refused to turn it on, saying that it isn't E911
> compliant, and that their system won't activate any phone that doesn't
> comply.

Such rules create mindbogging "logic". Better no phone, hence no means
to call 911, than a phone that may connect you to the wrong 911-callcenter.

My e-mail-address is sokolov [at] gmx dot net

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