Can I answer the phone and text messages when the phone is turned off?

You can answer the phone and send text messages within 12 hours after shutdown, but you can't make phone calls and send text messages.

Arrears downtime means that the communication operator suspends the user's mobile phone service when the balance of the user's mobile phone account is zero or the given credit limit has been consumed. Users can open their mobile phones by recharging them or applying for increasing the credit limit.

Delayed downtime affects business.

Although the current mobile phone users' arrears of downtime will not affect their personal credit information, operators still remind the public that if your mobile phone number is no longer used, you should cancel it in the business hall as soon as possible, otherwise it will affect the handling of new business in the future.

China Unicom's customer service staff said that China Unicom will automatically cancel the account for users who have been in arrears for three months. "Next time you want to handle Unicom's business, you must pay the fees you owe before you can handle new business."

Arrears of downtime are blacklisted.

Whether it is mobile, China Unicom or telecom, once your mobile phone number is in arrears, it will be included in their system arrears list, which is the so-called "blacklist". At this time, all you have to do is pay back the arrears. If you don't pay it after three months, it will be cancelled and resold, and your ID card will be blacklisted. For users, if they don't want to be blacklisted and logged off, they can only choose to pay for booting.

At present, the three major operators have provided users with more convenient payment methods. Users can pay cash in operators' physical stores or through online platforms. Take Unicom mobile phone users as an example. Unicom's mobile phone users can pay in cash in the business hall, or they can buy a recharge card and recharge it through the recharge line.

In addition, users can also use bank cards with online banking function to pay phone bills for Unicom mobile phone users in Unicom online business hall and mobile phone business hall. For users who are temporarily unable to pay the startup fee, they can also choose to call the customer service hotline to apply for increasing the temporary credit limit of their mobile phone accounts and handle emergency startup.