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| TheDuckGuy 2006-06-19, 10:33 pm |
| I am looking to replace my current phone with a new one... but I don’t want
to pay the ridiculously high prices for a phone from Cingular without a new
activation. I know you can use one of Cingular's "Go Phone's" as a phone
with a regular contract plan (just throw the SIM card in). However, I also
know Cingular only sells certain phones in specific parts of the country. If
I try to purchase a Motorola V235 for my region, I'm told that the phone will
not operate in my area. Yet, it is for sale in other parts of the country.
The V235 is a quadband phone [GSM 850/900/1800/1900] just like the V190,
which is sold in my part of the country. Is the limit on sales just a
marketing trick from Cingular... or will there actually be problems using the
phone on the network in my region (I'm spend most of my time in PA)?
I wouldn't be using the pre-pay system at all, I would be putting a SIM card
from my current phone in there, because the one I have is dying (its also a
GSM phone btw). Does anyone have an anwser for this? Thanks.
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| John Navas 2006-06-21, 10:33 pm |
| On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:21:45 GMT, "TheDuckGuy" <u23213@uwe> wrote in
<62079b8c2e357@uwe>:
>I am looking to replace my current phone with a new one... but I don’t want
>to pay the ridiculously high prices for a phone from Cingular without a new
>activation. I know you can use one of Cingular's "Go Phone's" as a phone
>with a regular contract plan (just throw the SIM card in). However, I also
>know Cingular only sells certain phones in specific parts of the country. If
>I try to purchase a Motorola V235 for my region, I'm told that the phone will
>not operate in my area. Yet, it is for sale in other parts of the country.
>The V235 is a quadband phone [GSM 850/900/1800/1900] just like the V190,
>which is sold in my part of the country. Is the limit on sales just a
>marketing trick from Cingular... or will there actually be problems using the
>phone on the network in my region (I'm spend most of my time in PA)?
>I wouldn't be using the pre-pay system at all, I would be putting a SIM card
>from my current phone in there, because the one I have is dying (its also a
>GSM phone btw). Does anyone have an anwser for this? Thanks.
Any phone with both 850 and 1900 bands will work fine.
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Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ Cingu...less_FA
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