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Moving to another state
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| Anybody out there know what the process is for dealing with a out of state
move? I'm a T-Mobile customer on the $29.99 Basic Plus plan. My phone is
a Moto V330. And am moving from FL to Mich. in the next month or so. I
know I can just dial 611 and ask CS,but I thought I'd save myself some time
and brain cells and find out from some of the more knowledgable people here
as to what is involved first. Do I need to get a new SIM from T-Mobile
with a new number, etc?
TIA for any info you can give me..........
Vinny
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| Joseph 2005-09-17, 5:48 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:19:13 GMT, Vinny
< cbxc969nospam@nospam
yahoo.com> wrote:
>Anybody out there know what the process is for dealing with a out of state
>move? I'm a T-Mobile customer on the $29.99 Basic Plus plan. My phone is
>a Moto V330. And am moving from FL to Mich. in the next month or so. I
>know I can just dial 611 and ask CS,but I thought I'd save myself some time
>and brain cells and find out from some of the more knowledgable people here
>as to what is involved first. Do I need to get a new SIM from T-Mobile
>with a new number, etc?
I'm not sure what the situation is now, but it used to be when
T-Mobile had several different networks (it was around 12 or 13
different ones) that if you moved to a different market you needed to
get a new SIM. With some phones that indicate roaming you might be
roaming all the time if you're in a different network. Otherwise all
they have to do is send an over-the-air SIM update and it will change
your phone number and perhaps change some other settings such as your
message center number if you don't already have it set to +18056377243
(805-MESSAGE.)
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| F. W. 2005-09-17, 11:48 pm |
| All you have to do is call customer service to request a new phone number.
You can change your address at the same time.
Same SIM cards are use throughout the continental USA.
No need to go to a store.
They'll only have to call customer service as well to change your number.
Storm
"Vinny" < cbxc969nospam@nospam
yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anybody out there know what the process is for dealing with a out of state
> move? I'm a T-Mobile customer on the $29.99 Basic Plus plan. My phone is
> a Moto V330. And am moving from FL to Mich. in the next month or so. I
> know I can just dial 611 and ask CS,but I thought I'd save myself some
> time
> and brain cells and find out from some of the more knowledgable people
> here
> as to what is involved first. Do I need to get a new SIM from T-Mobile
> with a new number, etc?
>
> TIA for any info you can give me..........
>
> Vinny
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| Cyrus Afzali 2005-09-19, 5:48 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:21:47 GMT, "F. W." <worthless51@verizon.net>
wrote:
>All you have to do is call customer service to request a new phone number.
>You can change your address at the same time.
>Same SIM cards are use throughout the continental USA.
>No need to go to a store.
>They'll only have to call customer service as well to change your number.
>Storm
Strictly speaking, they'd probably let you keep your phone number, as
it really doesn't make any difference to them what you have. Some
prefer this if they have a ton of contacts in the area they're
leaving. The main thing they'd want to know is address so that they
could keep track of your usage of the home network area. Even then,
I've personally never heard of people getting dinged for too much out
of area network usage on a nationwide plan, even though the
disclaimers allow for this.
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>"Vinny" < cbxc969nospam@nospam
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| John S. 2005-10-05, 5:48 pm |
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"Cyrus Afzali" <pnsmnyv@lnubb.pbz> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:21:47 GMT, "F. W." <worthless51@verizon.net>
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> I've personally never heard of people getting dinged for too much out
> of area network usage on a nationwide plan, even though the
> disclaimers allow for this.
This is a Sprint thing and doesn't apply to the other carriers that I have
ever seen.
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| Cyrus Afzali 2005-10-05, 5:48 pm |
| On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:42:35 GMT, "John S."
<john@mocha-n-micro-chips.com> wrote:
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>"Cyrus Afzali" <pnsmnyv@lnubb.pbz> wrote in message
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>This is a Sprint thing and doesn't apply to the other carriers that I have
>ever seen.
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T-Mobile used to have this condition on their contracts; I know they
did when I joined them when they were VoiceStream several years ago.
It may not be a condition now, of course.
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| John Richards 2005-10-05, 5:48 pm |
| "John S." <john@mocha-n-micro-chips.com> wrote in message news:LvS0f.9117$vw6.3897@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
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> "Cyrus Afzali" <pnsmnyv@lnubb.pbz> wrote in message
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> This is a Sprint thing and doesn't apply to the other carriers that I have
> ever seen.
Sprint's guidelines say that roaming on non-Sprint networks should be no
more than 50% of your monthly usage, but they are fairly lax on enforcing this.
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John Richards
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| Steve Sobol 2005-10-06, 2:48 am |
| Cyrus Afzali wrote:
> T-Mobile used to have this condition on their contracts; I know they
> did when I joined them when they were VoiceStream several years ago.
> It may not be a condition now, of course.
Cingular did too.
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| O/Siris 2005-10-12, 2:48 am |
| In article <74V0f.393$E46.163@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>, jr70
@blackhole.invalid says...
> "John S." <john@mocha-n-micro-chips.com> wrote in message news:LvS0f.9117=
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> Sprint's guidelines say that roaming on non-Sprint networks should be no
> more than 50% of your monthly usage, but they are fairly lax on enforcing=
this.
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You and Cyrus, and perhaps F.W., appear to be mistaking two different=20
kinds of "roaming" usage.
The 50% guideline is for *actual* roaming. As in using Verizon=20
Wireless' network to make or receive calls.
F.W. above is talking about using the *same* carrier, just in a non-home=20
area. i.e. using T-Mobile in California but signed up in NYC. I=20
actually didn't realize this applied to any of the national carriers any=20
longer. However, with Sprint, I know for certain that it does not. You=20
can move to another section of the country, and retain your original=20
phone number. Sprint will not act on that.
Before I stopped working at Sprint, I *did* encounter two people where=20
the "America" roaming option was forcibly removed after violating the=20
50% rule twice within a 3-month period. But it's been almost 18-months=20
now since I worked there. You're not the first person to say Sprint's=20
not enforcing the policy. However, it was *never* intended to be acted=20
on by just one "violation."
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O/Siris
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