Cingular cell phone service

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bigtoe

2007-11-21, 7:33 am

If I buy a go-phone from AT&A's website, can I take the SIM card from my existing AT&T phone, and use it in the go-phone ? I do not wish to use the go-phone prepaid service, I just want the better phone. Looking at a refurbished Nokia 6085. I
think it will get better signal than my LG CU400 at my house. If it will work do I take the SIM card that comes with the phone out before ever powering it up and replace it with my SIM card ? Will AT&t bother me about activating this phone as a go-phone
? TIA

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Mike S.

2007-11-21, 7:33 am

In article < 47441623$0$32542$4c3
68faf@roadrunner.com>,
bigtoe <kforaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I buy a go-phone from AT&A's website, can I take the SIM card from
>my existing AT&T phone, and use it in the go-phone ? I do not wish to
>use the go-phone prepaid service, I just want the better phone. Looking
>at a refurbished Nokia 6085. I think it will get better signal than my
>LG CU400 at my house. If it will work do I take the SIM card that comes
>with the phone out before ever powering it up and replace it with my SIM
>card ? Will AT&t bother me about activating this phone as a go-phone?

You can interchange SIM cards between AT&T phones sold as prepay or
postpay whenever you want. It is not the phone that is "activated", it is
the SIM card.

Cingular had been known to occasionally blacklist prepaid handsets sold by
mass marketers (like Wal-Mart) that were not properly entered into the
system at the point of sale. I'm not sure that is even done anymore; in
any case it should not matter if the handset is purchased direct anyway.

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