My friends have stopped calling because they have run out of phone credit, and as I have run out of phone credit myself, I have to use my boyfriend's phone to find out what is going on elsewhere in the city.
But we have all run out of phone credit and we are no longer able to call our relatives".
At first, I assumed that he had run out of phone credit or lost his charger, which had happened before.
Useful if you start running out of phone space.
"We ran out of phone batteries and the floods had destroyed the phone towers," Mr. Shashwat recalled.
I tried, but my council's environmental crime unit had me on hold for so long that I ran out of phone credit.
Speaking by phone from her home in Cocody, Catherine Mobio, a nurse, says: "We have nothing left to eat, we are all running out of phone credit and won't be able to call our relatives in the next days.
Several replies pointed out, however, that people running out of phone battery can't keep waiting for someone to pick up.
After running millions of phone calls through Dialapp, the company found that around 65% of daily calls were simple status updates – the things that could be answered with a yes or no, or your current location.
Municipal Utilities Service, which operated telephone service, ran out of phone numbers and the waiting list for phone connections stretched to 1,500 entries.
