# Plain cell phones--the latest trend? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plain-cell-phones-the-latest-trend/961663 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [March 25, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plain-cell-phones-the-latest-trend/961663 "2022-03-25T01:19:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum) #### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plain-cell-phones-the-latest-trend/961663/17 "2022-04-12T13:40:45Z")
> [@Fool Me Twice: April Mini-Rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fool-me-twice-april-mini-rants/962109/44): > > AT&T (and by extension, pretty much ALL mobile phone carriers). MIL, who is 83, and has limited access to transportation, has had a prepaid AT&T cell phone for years. She’d toss a few bucks at it every month or two to keep it active, but only ever used it for emergencies. Well, it was turned off when AT&T decided to nuke its 3G service a couple months ago. MIL is… not tech savvy (and, has limited access to transportation). We were down there this past week, getting assorted things sorted out … Here’s a post that is appropriate to this discussion. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plain-cell-phones-the-latest-trend/961663)._