My husband and I are in our 70s, wrong side of the tech
revolution. Nevertheless, for emergency
purposes, eight years ago we signed up
with Verizon for two cell phones which came free in return for signing a
one-year contract.
The phones were very basic.
They did not take photographs, they could not be used for email. We took a basic family rate and never in 8
years exceeded our minutes. Although
we'd fulfilled our contract (going beyond it by 7 years) we never bothered to
upgrade because we only even turned our phones on when we were traveling and we
kept them for emergency purposes.
We don't know how to text or how to receive texts. Our children and grandchildren find this
amusing but they know not to text us and never do.
Suddenly a couple of months ago, our monthly bill shot up by
over $10/month.
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