Okay, now I don't know exactly why or what, so one can only speculate.
I received a cellular telephone for Christmas, with 6000 prepaid minutes.
I don't recall the brand (it's in the big city, not with me here), any more than a non-coin collector would pay attention to a 1950 five-cent piece to see if it's from the Philadelphia, or the Denver, mint.
Usually deaf people don't use telephones anyway.
I took the gift to the big city, to have someone program or set it up or activate it, whatever one does. It's called "economy of effort;" I figured it was more useful to spend five minutes of her time, than two hours of mine.
She was on the telephone (land-line) for 45 minutes dealing with this.
Apparently the cellular telephone I got will not work in this area, up here on the roof of Nebraska. (The telephone was purchased in Nebraska, but in a part of the state more-heavily populated.) Up here, oftentimes, if one wishes to use a cellular telephone, he either has to drive out on the highway a couple of miles from town, or go to the top row of seats of the local football stadium.
The bottom line is that the company is mailing me a cellular telephone that ostensibly will work in this area, along with a prepaid mailer thing to send the other one back to them.
My question is this: same company, same brand, but different model of cellular telephone.
Why would this one not work for this area, and the one that's coming, ostensibly work for this area? Maybe a larger-capacity battery?
I dunno this stuff; not because I'm lacking brain-cells, but simply because telephonic stuff has never been important in this life.