Subj : Re: Radio waves
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sat Nov 02 2019 15:21:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to August Abolins on 10-28-19  06:50 <=-

 JM> I seldom use mine.
 JM> My plan with TracFone is triple minutes.  For every minute I buy I
 JM> get two free and they roll over.  Have to buy a few hours every three
 JM> months. I have 40 or 50 HOURS of use currently.

Sounds like you should get the year's worth of service instead of the 3
month service... the card comes with 400 minutes, with your triple
minutes that would be 1200 minutes... but at least that's for a full
year, so wouldn't collect quite so badly... My TracFone only gives me
double minutes, but they also roll over... currently I have 1628.30 on
my phone, to last me until early March, when I need to get another
year's service....

 JM> I use my phone, as a phone, maybe twice a week.

Not sure I even use it that much... although I'll use it more in
spates.... mostly when I'm not at home, since we primarily still use our
landline for calling... 

 JM> I have always disliked calling people just to chat figuring they are
 JM> busy doing something and interrupting them.

That depends on the person... some people I call just to chat, since I
know that that's what they need... generally shut-ins or the like...

 JM> I use text more since that way (unless really important) the other
 JM> person can decide when its convenient for them to reply.  (I had a
 JM> supervisor who would deny saying something or other later and I only
 JM> texted him since I had a record and would show "right 

Yup, keeping a record can be a good reason to have the conversation in
text rather than live... just have to have room to save the relevant
texts then... :)
 
 > I remember reading about wi-fi being pulled out of schools in certain  
 > European countries
 JM> I have heard something about the new 5G that is supposed to be bad,
 JM> others saying its not.
 JM> My phone has wifi and only use data when absolutely necessary.
 JM> I brought about an hour of data several years ago and still using
 JM> what I got.

My phone, the data is part of the minutes that I have... and isn't
really all that useful anyway... mostly for pulling down text messages
that are in graphic form or that have picture attachments....  I don't
really use the browser function otherwise....
 
ttyl       neb

.... Been there, done that, tripped alarm, came here.

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