Update: the Dispos-A-Phone

During the most recent World Tour, the inexplicable failure of my regular wireless provider to come up with even the slightest bit of roaming coverage anywhere east of Cookeville, Tennessee led me to unbox and activate a TracFone, which worked just fine in this dead zone and which works pretty well out here, except for the minor detail that since it was activated in central North Carolina, it carries a 919 area code, which can be offputting to the people I know who don't actually know anyone in central North Carolina.

I figure I'll handle it this way: burn up the remaining minutes (around 100), let it die, then reactivate it from here with a fresh fill. Presumably they'll have to fork over a 405 number at that time.

The phone itself is actually pretty decent, and it's dual-band, so I should be able to roam even into those mysterious 850 MHz areas where my old Nokia just glares at me.

Posted at 5:58 PM to General Disinterest