tl;dr the internet cut out and I was in the dark for 3+ hours. My phone with just voip rn isn’t cutting it for emergencies I need an actual plan with talk,text and data. Do y’all recommend anything I could look into?
tl;dr the internet cut out and I was in the dark for 3+ hours. My phone with just voip rn isn’t cutting it for emergencies I need an actual plan with talk,text and data. Do y’all recommend anything I could look into?
Just one thing to caution with this if if they’re in the US, then many Chinese phones you have to import and that are not sold domestically do not have all of the signal bands used by US carriers, so you can have something like no 5G and half strength 4G signals or almost no connectivity at all in the worst case. Last time I said this, someone thought I was saying Chinese phones are bad, but I use a OnePlus, so that’s not it. A OnePlus 12R sold in the US is going to have different hardware than one sold in China. There’s a few sites to check this on like 1, 2, or 3. This is less of a problem in Europe and India, but still worth checking.
In Australia, there’s a solid chance they won’t work at all because they won’t support the frequencies used in Aus to make emergency calls, meaning the government will block them.
This has been fixed in the latest Xiaomi and Huawei flagships but budget models and smaller providers still have issues