Why Won’t My New Cell Phone Make Calls (Yet It Will Send Texts?)
Cell phones have a unique identifying number like the chassis number of your car.
If and one gets stolen it gets blacklisted by the cell phone networks - which stops calls being made on that handset and theres no way to resolve the issue unless the network remove the bar. Bizareely they often *can* send texts, just not make calls.
A common occurence in “cheap” phones bought off a friend, off ebay or suchlike is this very problem.
So if you buy a new phone but can’t make a call when you can send a text think - dodgy phone and get your money back as quickly as possible.
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