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AT&T BLUE SIM TO CINGULAR 3G SIM?
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| rxdoctor@gmail.com 2007-03-19, 3:33 pm |
| I have an old AT&T plan & AT&T blue SIM card. I want to use the new
3G cingular SIM for better speeds on my data plan! Anyway to do this
WITHOUT changing my plan? I must emphasize that I don't want to
upgrade ao any of the CINGULAR PLANS as I like my OLD AT&T PLAN.
Please help!!!!
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| Copper Emeritus 2007-03-19, 3:33 pm |
| Short Answer.....NO.
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<rxdoctor@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have an old AT&T plan & AT&T blue SIM card. I want to use the new
> 3G cingular SIM for better speeds on my data plan! Anyway to do this
> WITHOUT changing my plan? I must emphasize that I don't want to
> upgrade ao any of the CINGULAR PLANS as I like my OLD AT&T PLAN.
> Please help!!!!
>
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| Todd Allcock 2007-03-19, 10:33 pm |
| At 19 Mar 2007 10:50:17 -0700 rxdoctor@gmail.com wrote:
> I have an old AT&T plan & AT&T blue SIM card. I want to use the new
> 3G cingular SIM for better speeds on my data plan! Anyway to do this
> WITHOUT changing my plan?
No. You need to stay with a blue legacy AT&T SIM to keep a legacy plan.
> I must emphasize that I don't want to
> upgrade ao any of the CINGULAR PLANS as I like my OLD AT&T PLAN.
> Please help!!!!
There's really no help to offer you. It's Cingular's network and
service, and they make the rules.
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| Ryan Sinn 2007-03-20, 4:33 am |
| On Mar 19, 5:17 pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 19 Mar 2007 10:50:17 -0700 rxdoc...@gmail.com wrote:
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> No. You need to stay with a blue legacy AT&T SIM to keep a legacy plan.
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> There's really no help to offer you. It's Cingular's network and
> service, and they make the rules.
You can switch without signing a contract... I did.
Just call customer service and explain what a loyal customer you've
been, but you have some hesitations about switching and you'd like to
be switched without a contract.
They'll say "no" -- then tell them that you already bought a new phone
(just pick an available cingular phone) and say that it's unlocked...
so you don't need the phone... you just need the new SIM.
They'll send you to a Cingular CORPORATE store (most of the stores are
corporate) and they'll give you a new orange SIM.
To be clear (because the stores don't know this is possible) -- The
STORE can't help you -- AT ALL... they are just giving you the SIM.
They can charge you up to $25-$30 for it... They gave me mine for
free...
Call Cingular Customer service back and tell them you have the new
Cingular SIM... they'll ask you for the number printed on the SIM...
give it to them... put the SIM in your old phone -- and presto --
within 5-10 minutes you'll have Cingular server.
I've been very disappointed with Cingular non-3G network speeds...
much slower than AT&T. About a quarter of the speed actually...
30kbps-50kbps instead of 160kbps+
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SO YES -- IT IS possible... From talking to people on the Cingular
Forums, I'm the first person to switch to Cingular from old AT&T
without a contract... but it is totally possible.
When they say it's impossible -- it's not -- apparently the trick is
that the support rep on the phone actually does give you a 12 month
cingular contract, but they set it so that it took effect a YEAR
AGO... so it has already expired. They only need to put you into a
contract if you need a new phone... and they'll say your old AT&T
phone doesn't work (but it does.)
If you have any more questions, I'm more than happy to elaborate.
Ryan
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| Ryan Sinn 2007-03-20, 4:33 am |
| You can't upgrade w/o changing your plan though -- you have to pick a
Cingular plan... sorry didn't read that :P
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| John Navas 2007-03-23, 4:33 am |
| On 20 Mar 2007 01:52:33 -0700, "Ryan Sinn" <ryansinn@gmail.com> wrote in
<1174380753.630670.95570@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:
>I've been very disappointed with Cingular non-3G network speeds...
>much slower than AT&T. About a quarter of the speed actually...
>30kbps-50kbps instead of 160kbps+
That's simply a matter of the "home" network and the comparative signal
strength in a given area, since both networks support the same EGPRS
speeds. It's a common misconception that handsets will pick the network
with the best signal -- they will actually prefer their home network as
long as the signal is "usable" even when the other network has a much
better signal. This difference will go away when the networks are fully
integrated
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Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ Cingu...less_FA
Q>
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