Why can't we use old cell phones again, even though they are a bit out of date? Is there no way to re-use them ourselves?
By Judith B. from Houston, TX
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If you can find a carrier I don't see why you couldn't use an old cell phone. There will be some restrictions though. Some cell towers work off a (for lack of a better word) frequency and if the chip set in the phone doesn't broadcast on an accepted frequency then the phone will have no signal.
For example, I went to Denmark at the beginning of the year and I asked Verizon if my cell phone would work there. They checked my model to the frequency used on the cell towers they have in Europe and informed me my phone wasn't new enough to get reception from one of those towers.
Same idea with you old phone. It would probably get reception on all the old towers still in use across the country but none of the newer towers put up to broaden a carriers range.
Whenever we get new phones, if the old ones are not completely broken, we save them. Our carrier uses sim cards so if we break the new phone (this happens often with DH) you can just put the sim card back in the old one and use it. Also, if I'm going somwhere where I want to take a phone but there's a chance a delicate, expensive, new touch screen could be damaged, I'll put my sim card in the old phone and take it instead.
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