Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all. This is a little scary though I do have a landline phone from Charter I can use but rarely do. I cannot dial out on either of my iPhones; I get a message about the call not being able to be completed as dialed but the message says it's from US Celular and I am with Verizon. I think my

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread David Chittenden
What this message means, if I remember the US system correctly, is the phone is unable to receive any signal from your carrier's tower, so it is accessing any available tower. By law, all carrier's towers must transmit emergency calls for free. Therefore, you are being told that you can make an

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well yes, I kind of figured it was something like that. But what would be causing it and is there anything I can do about it? I am in a city, not in a rural area so it isn't that I'm somewhere where there shouldn't be any available towers. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread David Chittenden
The only thing I can think of doing about it is to call your cellular provider using your land line and reporting the lack of signal. This will notify them of the necessity of getting a technician out to fix the tower. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread Joseph Hudson
Hello Cheryl, I also live in the city and I've had this issue before it normally happens when the towers are down. So the only thing she can do is reported to Verizon. Joseph Hudson Email jhud7...@yahoo.com Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, that is right. I used my almost-nver-used landline, which just payed for itself, and called verizon. After some testing and trying, we decided that my phones are a part of a market with tower problems right now. I thought it might be that since both of my phones were having the same

Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out

2013-11-11 Thread Troy Sullivan
: Monday, November 11, 2013 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Verizon problem: cannot dial out What this message means, if I remember the US system correctly, is the phone is unable to receive any signal from your carrier's tower, so it is accessing any available tower. By law, all carrier's towers must