I have been reading many post on unlocked phones and will give an answer on why cingular will not let you activate a non cingular phone first off its a warranty issuse also cingular will not honor an insurance claim on the phone so if you got a 500.00 phone and you broke or lost it you just wasted 500.00 cingular is also working on geting us more phones and is talking about geting the push to talk like nextel and verizon has and since cingular bought att cingular also brought the right to use att phones also this giving cingular customers more choices on phones plus the phones is loaded with a cingular software that lets you use things like email and text messaging and other features on a cingular system also the phones have copy rights motorola,nokia and so on make phones for each phone services provider which means cingular and att will not have the v300 since t-mobile and motorola have an agreement that only t-mobile is allowed to have the phones i hope this answer the question about unlocked phones anymore questions please feel free to ask if you do still decided to use a non cingular phone there is ways to do so
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tr3asportscar Posts: 3
Thu May 13, 2004 9:25 am
You say Cingular doesn't want you to use non-Cingular phones.... but did you know that I recently moved from east coast (NC, GSM) to west coast (San Francisco, CA GSM) and Cingular west coast office and east coast office both confirm that the phones are LOCKED for their area. Can you believe this? So far, after 1 week of pleading, no results or satisfaction from Cingular. I have been told to buy a new SIM card in CA ($27) and a new phone.
NDogg78 Posts: 87
Phone Model: Motorola V600
Service Provider: Cingular
Thu May 13, 2004 5:44 pm
tr3asportscar wrote:
You say Cingular doesn't want you to use non-Cingular phones.... but did you know that I recently moved from east coast (NC, GSM) to west coast (San Francisco, CA GSM) and Cingular west coast office and east coast office both confirm that the phones are LOCKED for their area. Can you believe this? So far, after 1 week of pleading, no results or satisfaction from Cingular. I have been told to buy a new SIM card in CA ($27) and a new phone.
have you tried unlocking your phone? what kind of phone is it?
CKim Posts: 5
Phone Model: Motorola V400
Service Provider: Cingular
Thu May 13, 2004 5:56 pm
The subject was about unlocked phones as in using another wireless companys cellphone not about relocating but here is why you need a new sim card because each sim card is on a diffrent system in the east coast it run off a care while in the west coast it called intelligence so all you need is a new sim card and not a new phone I hope this explains why you need a new sim card
NDogg78 Posts: 87
Phone Model: Motorola V600
Service Provider: Cingular
Thu May 13, 2004 5:56 pm
CKim wrote:
I have been reading many post on unlocked phones and will give an answer on why cingular will not let you activate a non cingular phone first off its a warranty issuse also cingular will not honor an insurance claim on the phone so if you got a 500.00 phone and you broke or lost it you just wasted 500.00 cingular is also working on geting us more phones and is talking about geting the push to talk like nextel and verizon has and since cingular bought att cingular also brought the right to use att phones also this giving cingular customers more choices on phones plus the phones is loaded with a cingular software that lets you use things like email and text messaging and other features on a cingular system also the phones have copy rights motorola,nokia and so on make phones for each phone services provider which means cingular and att will not have the v300 since t-mobile and motorola have an agreement that only t-mobile is allowed to have the phones i hope this answer the question about unlocked phones anymore questions please feel free to ask if you do still decided to use a non cingular phone there is ways to do so
what the heck are you trying to say:?:
if you have a GSM phone, what activation are you talking about? all you need is a SIM card that's activated.
also, why would cingular ever want to cover a phone that you didn't buy from them? you didn't buy the phone from them so why would they have to insure it. that makes perfect sense to me.
CKim Posts: 5
Phone Model: Motorola V400
Service Provider: Cingular
Fri May 14, 2004 3:20 am
what i was trying to say this whole time is people walk into a store with a t-mobile phone and ask if they can use the phone what people don't know is all you need to do is activate a sim card and stick it into the unlocked phone you have after you get your sim card and about insurance you don't need to buy a phone from them to get it insured you can by a phone off the net or from someone and get it insured what i was trying to say is you can spend 500.00 for a phone and if it breaks or something goes wrong it hard to find someone to help its like when you walk into a cingular store with a t-mobile phone hell they can't honor it warraty since cingular doesn't carry the phone and if you walk into a t-mobile store and they see that your service provider is cingular why should they help you so to make this short the reason why i posted up is not to tell people they can't you a phone they feel like using i'm just tell them here is why cingular won't let you use a phone out of there inventory and why you will only get the phone to work 80% not 100% of the time.
tr3asportscar Posts: 3
Fri May 14, 2004 8:45 am
I have a Nokia 5190.
I can certify that I left east coast GSM Cingular and Cingular said no problem using the phone in west coast Cingular GSM. I bought a west coast Cingular SIM card and my east coast 5190 phone did not recognize west coast SIM card and so, the west coast Cingular says, OH...you can not use a east coast Cingular phone here and we can not help you. Could it be the phone is too old? Both markets are GSM 850/1900.
CKim Posts: 5
Phone Model: Motorola V400
Service Provider: Cingular
Fri May 14, 2004 12:45 pm
I can send you a used phone if you like and also did you get a new number or did you keep your old number tell me what you want to do i know it not a new phone but at least you got something to use
keyline Posts: 1
Phone Model: Samsung s105
Service Provider: Tmobile
Mon May 17, 2004 8:58 am
and I want to run it on Cingular on the east coast. I recently moved from the midwest. It's a samsung s105, unlocked. the cingular rep said that I will receive only half of the spectrum (whatever that means). However, cingular and tmobile run on 1900, which is what the phone is. Is this propaganda to get me to buy new equipment? I don't care about the warranty issue, as I don't lose my phone and don't intend to throw it down the steps or run over it with my car. Please advise on the 'spectrum' issue.
thanks!
NDogg78 Posts: 87
Phone Model: Motorola V600
Service Provider: Cingular
Tue May 18, 2004 1:49 pm
keyline wrote:
and I want to run it on Cingular on the east coast. I recently moved from the midwest. It's a samsung s105, unlocked. the cingular rep said that I will receive only half of the spectrum (whatever that means). However, cingular and tmobile run on 1900, which is what the phone is. Is this propaganda to get me to buy new equipment? I don't care about the warranty issue, as I don't lose my phone and don't intend to throw it down the steps or run over it with my car. Please advise on the 'spectrum' issue.
thanks!
cingular uses both 850 and 1900MHz bands, that's what the rep means. you'd get a lot more coverage with being able to use the 850MHz band since the coverage area is greater with a lower frequency.
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