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“You can expect a call back within 24 to 48 hours.” Just Don’t Count On It.
For the past two weeks, my second job has been waiting on hold for usually over an hour while two mobile phone companies hash it out for possession of my wife’s cell number.
Since my wife was 19, her aunt has been paying for cell phone service. Now in her forties, married over sixteen years, a mother of two, my wife agreed it was about time she graciously decline another month of her aunt’s generosity.
So around the 19th or 20th of last month, I contacted my cell carrier (we’ll call it “Redco”) about adding a line.
No problem.
Phone companies do this all the time.
My wife was even able to order a new iPhone 14.
Things were going swimmingly.
Until the phone arrived.
Apparently, the new iPhone — perhaps others as well now — does not carry an insertable sim card as previous models have. The latest thing is an “e-sim” the carrier has to activate.
One would assume this is a fairly efficient process.
But one would be wrong.
At least one whose cell carrier is Redco Mobile.
