{"id":87,"date":"2011-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/public-staged.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:04:23","slug":"flexibility-in-times-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility in Times of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart phones are amazing, to be sure. But in an emergency, the smartest phone you could be holding is a fully-charged cell phone with a lot of minutes still available in your plan. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s even smarter is to make sure your In Case of Emergency<\/em> (ICE) contact information is on your phone\u2014in fact, you might want to keep two ICE numbers on your cell phone. If you\u2019re injured and unable to speak, first responders are trained to check your cell phone for your ICE numbers so they can quickly contact them. It\u2019s simple enough to make your phone ICE-friendly: for example, just add “ICE-Mom” or “ICE-Husband” to your phone\u2019s address book. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those are things you want with your cell phone service in time of need. What you don\u2019t want when dealing with a personal or natural disaster is to worry about violating some inflexible cell phone contract, and being denied service because of it. And you wouldn\u2019t want to suddenly be running out of minutes on a pre-paid cell phone when you most need those minutes. Talk about adding insult to injury. <\/span><\/p>\n

We know that many of our customers order our free phone <\/a>and sign up for the minimum rate. They simply want a wireless device not so much for daily calling but for emergency use. It gives them peace of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what gives all of our customers great peace of mind is the knowledge they can upgrade at any point and add minutes to their cell phone plan<\/em>. When the emergency passes, they can return to their normal usage plan. No penalties. No extra change fees. No contract to break or worry about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, our <\/span>senior-friendly Doro 410<\/span><\/a> includes an emergency SOS button on the back. In a crisis, you simply press the button and the phone automatically calls your list of emergency numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

My own life reminds me that life is unpredictable. One day may be normal, the next day a family member is hospitalized. One month everything\u2019s fine in town, the next month there\u2019s an earthquake rattling our building. You just never know. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what you can know is how to be prepared. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smart phones are amazing, to be sure. But in an emergency, the smartest phone you could be holding is a fully-charged cell phone with a lot of minutes still available in your plan. What\u2019s even smarter is to make sure your In Case of Emergency (ICE) contact information is on your phone\u2014in fact, you might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nFlexibility in Times of Crisis - Our Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Marick\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Flexibility in Times of Crisis - Our Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Marick","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/","url":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/","name":"Flexibility in Times of Crisis - Our Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-10-18T08:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-12T16:04:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c742e4c526243bb27c8612b1b6a4b7bc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/flexibility-in-times-of-crisis\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Flexibility in Times of Crisis"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/","name":"Our Blog","description":"Consumer Cellular Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c742e4c526243bb27c8612b1b6a4b7bc","name":"John Marick","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd17eafd77b758abfff5ad8395366f27?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd17eafd77b758abfff5ad8395366f27?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"John Marick"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.consumercellular.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/author\/john-marick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}