Re: Text Message to the Rescue

Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
will go through when a voice call will not.

Fred

"Earl Grey" <lewis.neil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> There's been a couple of stories in the national news lately about kids
> who have been kidnapped or held in tough situations and got themselves
> rescued by sending text messages to parents/friends from their cell phones
> when they were left alone.
>
> So why not just call them or dial 911? And what kind of dim-bulb kidnapper
> would let his victim keep a cell phone?
>

Fred wrote:
> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
> will go through when a voice call will not.
>
> Fred
>

I didn't know that. Can others verify please?

Lou

"Lou" <lounotreal@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Fred wrote:
>> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
>> will go through when a voice call will not.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
> I didn't know that. Can others verify please?
>
> Lou

True. After all, a text only takes a second or two of decent signal quality.
Voice takes a much longer duration of good signal quality to complete a
call.

Also, often you can write a text message in bits and pieces (when no one is
looking) and then send at the push of a button. Very discrete compared to
holding a phone to your ear and talking.

-Frank

"Lou" wrote:

> Fred wrote:
>> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
>> will go through when a voice call will not.
>
> I didn't know that. Can others verify please?
>

Absolutely true. One word - Katrina. My cousin had evacuated to Baton
Rouge. No phone calls would go through in or out on his cell phone, but we
could text message.

nospam wrote:
> "Lou" wrote:
>
>> Fred wrote:
>>> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
>>> will go through when a voice call will not.
>> I didn't know that. Can others verify please?
>>
>
> Absolutely true. One word - Katrina. My cousin had evacuated to Baton
> Rouge. No phone calls would go through in or out on his cell phone, but we
> could text message.
>
>

Thanks to both replies.

Education is about knowing where to look for answers.

Lou

Lou wrote:
> Fred wrote:
>> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text message
>> will go through when a voice call will not.
>
> I didn't know that. Can others verify please?

Unquestionably. The only reason I was able to get the wife to learn to text
was that we could communicate that way in large shopping areas where signal
is weak to nonexistent.

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"clifto" <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Lou wrote:
>> Fred wrote:
>>> Also, many times if the cell service isn't good in an area a text
>>> message
>>> will go through when a voice call will not.
>>
>> I didn't know that. Can others verify please?
>
> Unquestionably. The only reason I was able to get the wife to learn to
> text
> was that we could communicate that way in large shopping areas where
> signal
> is weak to nonexistent.
>

Jaysus man, you let your wife out of your sight in a mall? I hope you take
her credit cards....