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| I know it's slightly O/T, but ....
My niece in Florida has an AT&T contract but her phone's 'expired'.
If she buys an AT&T 'Go Phone'
http://tinyurl.com/3y3fpw
and puts her 'contract sim' in it, will it work?
I know it should, but with it being the usa ....... ;-)
FWIW, the sim just worked fine in my wife's unlocked NK6101
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| mrcamp 2008-03-23, 4:33 am |
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Yes. it should work fine in any AT&T phone or for that matter, any
unlocked phone with the appropriate bands.
'J B[_2_ Wrote:
> ;748959']I know it's slightly O/T, but ....
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> My niece in Florida has an AT&T contract but her phone's 'expired'.
>
> If she buys an AT&T 'Go Phone'
> http://tinyurl.com/3y3fpw
> and puts her 'contract sim' in it, will it work?
> I know it should, but with it being the usa ....... ;-)
>
> FWIW, the sim just worked fine in my wife's unlocked NK6101
>
>
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> J B
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mrcamp
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| S Viemeister 2008-03-23, 7:33 am |
| J B wrote:
> I know it's slightly O/T, but ....
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> My niece in Florida has an AT&T contract but her phone's 'expired'.
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> If she buys an AT&T 'Go Phone' http://tinyurl.com/3y3fpw
> and puts her 'contract sim' in it, will it work?
> I know it should, but with it being the usa ....... ;-)
>
Is it a 'new' ATT phone, or is it a pre-Cingular ATT phone?
> FWIW, the sim just worked fine in my wife's unlocked NK6101
>
My ATT SIM works fine in all the _unlocked_ phones I've tried it in!
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| "S Viemeister" <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
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> Is it a 'new' ATT phone, or is it a pre-Cingular ATT phone?
Hmm, dunno. It says 'refurb'. Did you look at the link?
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| S Viemeister 2008-03-23, 10:33 am |
| J B wrote:
> "S Viemeister" <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
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> Hmm, dunno. It says 'refurb'. Did you look at the link?
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Sorry, I wasn't clear - I meant her previous phone and SIM, not the
GoPhone, which will almost certainly be 'new' ATT.
I've been told by ATT/Cingular staff, that my 'old' ATT contract SIM
will not work in the new (locked) phones. I tend to believe this, as
I've had trouble finding the correct codes for unlocking various ATT and
Cingular phones - sometimes it took two or three tries.
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| "S Viemeister" <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
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> Sorry, I wasn't clear - I meant her previous phone and SIM, not the
> GoPhone, which will almost certainly be 'new' ATT.
Ah!
She's on 'old' ATT (Cingular)
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J B
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| Dennis Ferguson 2008-03-23, 3:33 pm |
| On 2008-03-23, J B <jb@invalid.com> wrote:
> "S Viemeister" <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
> news:64n2uvF2d335uU1
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> Ah!
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> She's on 'old' ATT (Cingular)
If her SIM says Cingular on it she'll probably be fine (if the SIM is
a 64k SIM or says "3G" it is certain she'll be fine). If her SIM
says "AT&T" on it, and is 3 or more years old, then she might have
a problem, though any "old SIM" problems can be cured by a trip to
the AT&T store to swap the SIM for a newer one. The "old AT&T" he's
talking about is AT&T Wireless which was acquired by Cingular four years
ago, before Cingular became AT&T (too boring to talk about, this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFtcp4mNzA
explains it as well as anything...).
In any case a prepaid AT&T phone should work fine with a postpaid
AT&T SIM, the same way this works in the UK.
Dennis Ferguson
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| "Dennis Ferguson" <dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> In any case a prepaid AT&T phone should work fine with a postpaid
> AT&T SIM, the same way this works in the UK.
Fingers crossed, she's ordered one!
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J B
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| "J B" <jb@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> "Dennis Ferguson" <dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Fingers crossed, she's ordered one!
All sorted.
New PAYG 'ATT - Go Phone' sim in Mrs B's phone
Niece's old ATT sim in new Pantech phone.
Everyone's happy!
:-)
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J B
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