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# No Signal
- URL: https://www.gerenm.net/no-signal/
- Published: 2026-01-15T01:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-15T01:08:27.000Z
- Author: Geren Mortensen
- Tags: instax, Snaps, SOOC, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-11 09:19, Snapshots

I took my mother to the Verizon store near her house to get her "new" iPhone SE 3 set up. She was having a lot of problems with her aging iPhone 7\. The reason for replacing an old phone with a slightly less old phone is that the iPhone SE 3 is the last phone Apple made with a physical button on the face (that button has been replaced with a swipe motion that she can't manage. I'm sure she's not the only one). While we were having lunch, Verizon suffered a major network outage.  
  
On my drive home, I passed by this long-abandoned telephone microwave tower. There's no signal there.