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=== Assistant: You can answer with a short, specific timeframe — and keep it tied to the fact it’s been continuous since it started. ===
You can answer with a short, specific timeframe — and keep it tied to the fact it’s been continuous since it started.

Something like:

: 

This tells him:
* It’s not a brand-new phone activation issue.
* It’s not an intermittent tower problem.
* It’s long enough that it’s clearly not a temporary outage.

After you give that answer, I’d immediately pivot back to:

: 

Do you want me to also prep an answer in case he next asks “Where are you located?” — since that’s a common follow-up?