I do love it so much when you tell me off for doing something I didn't know I shouldn't! This is the first secondhand phone i have ever bought and it worked fine until 4g started flipping around.
It is with 3 which is how I know I have no coverage, because, of course, I went on the internet to check what coverage I have. Or rather I do but cannot talk as I don't have a phone that is 4gVoLTE or "calling" compatible. Still works for texts, internet etc.
So none of the above "Yer" statements are the reason. The closest would be "Yer fone is old old cr@p that doesn't have 4gVoLTE." They've switched it off for peeps like me so that I go out and by yet more of their carp. so they will simply lose a customer.
My really old Motorola V171 on Tesco Mobile pay as you go, still works fine, I can still talk on it and send texts and apparently even use it with the internet if I could be bothered to find out how. It cost peanuts new. And it works on the strongest signal it can find.
Nothing wrong with the antenna, on either of my mobiles. It works as well as any of our phones here and in Frogland.
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