Ed,
The email address I have for Joe is:
joemackey108@comcast.net
The last email I got from Joe was in December 2021 .
That's the email address I had for him, but I don't recall how
long ago it was when I heard from him. He told me that he had been
diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which at that point, is
a death sentence. My late father only lasted 6 weeks after he was
diagnosed with it.
In March of 2022 I began having DSL problems and was suggested
I drop DSL and get Fiber internet
I dropped DSL and learned the Fiber Modem didn't work here , so
I dropped the Fiber too.
Two years later I got a cellphone plan.
When my late Mom had AT&T DSL, every time there was a thunderstorm
or power outage, the DSL modem failed. That meant no landline (not
even 911) and no internet.
I came over to her place (which is where I am now, as all of my
family is dead and gone now), and got on the phone with them. AT&T
was giving me the runaround, and when I said "I want to talk to your supervisor"...they promptly cut me off!!
So, I dialed them back (having to use my cellphone), and when they
said "this call will be monitored and recorded", I growled "It d@mn
sure better after what the last representative did to me".
I apologized to my Mom afterwards (she was 90 at the time) for
using foul language...and said "I can't blame you...I heard
everything!!". They were going to make her wait 3 weeks to get a
new DSL modem, so I read them the riot act...in spades!!
So, they sent a technician by the next morning, and when I told
him what happened, he was furious. He said "They do this crap all
the time"...and got my Mom a new DSL modem, and his card, with his
private cell number. He told us "if it fails, call the number on
the card (do NOT call AT&T), and either myself or one of my crew
will have a replacement here within 24 hours".
Several months after her death, when an AT&T representative tried
to sell my phone and DSL service, I told them what happened, and
snarled "I wouldn't take your crappy service, if you gave it to me
for nothing!!".
I am with Consumer Cellular, and being an AARP member, I get a
5% discount on my bill. Since I also have insurance, and am making
a monthly payment plan on my Samsung Galaxy A16 phone (which I've
used as an internet hotspot), with unlimited talk, text, and 10 GB
of data, I pay $55 a month. That will go down once I pay off the
phone, in about another year.
It is rare that I use 10 GB of data, as mostly, I'm piggybacking
off of the Xfinity Wi-Fi.
73,
Daryl, N5VLZ
... As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
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