Whats a refurbished phone?
Refurbishing is just another word for reconditioning or rebuilding. Traditionally, when a rental phone was taken out of service, it was disassembled, cleaned, tested, and made to look and work like new, and then rented to another customer. A refurbished phone may contain parts made in different years, and even by different companies, but should be as good as a new phone. Rental phones were built to last for many decades. Many people who thought they got “new” phones from their local phone company, actually got refurbs. Some phones were refurbished several times, and some 50-year-old phones still work fine.
