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duceduc
Posts: 2122
Phone Model:
iPhone Unlocked
Service Provider:
Cingular - Extended |
 
Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:20 pm |
No worries for me. I have no roaming charge plan 
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fishcube
Posts: 11
Phone Model:
Motorola V551
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:16 pm |
ttt for roaming question?
I thought one was roaming if using another carriers tower? We have nationwide, and would like to know when we are actually roaming.
How do you get a non roaming charge plan? price?
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elmo01
Posts: 2221
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:47 pm |
| fishcube wrote: | ttt for roaming question?
I thought one was roaming if using another carriers tower? We have nationwide, and would like to know when we are actually roaming.
How do you get a non roaming charge plan? price? |
roaming is defined by your home calling area...ie if you are on a local plan and are with Cingular... lets say you are from new york...
your home calling area is basically the northeast... if you hop on a plane and do to chicago... you are roaming...
if your rate plan is a national plan... your home calling area is the whole country and you are not roaming...because even though you are from new york ...chicago is still within your home calling area (inside the country)
a LOT of people get roaming and long distance confused
long distance is where you are calling to.... roaming is where you are calling from...
now to the original question... are you roaming if on another carriers tower... possibly is the answer...it depends on some other factors like carrier ...rate plan ...and cross carrier roaming agreements
generally speaking cingular and tmobile have a national roaming agreement.. each will allow the other network access...those 2 are the major GSM carriers... the others I have no idea but presumably have similar setups
call your carrier to be sure...or go to their website...almost all of them have a cutomer login portal you should be able to bring up the map...
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cwagner47
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
Motorola V551
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:38 pm |
I have the same thing on my new Cingular 551. I called Cingular service and they didn't know. I stopped at the mall and asked 4 cell guys and they didn't know. At this point, I'm going to email my brother who works for Moto (but not in phones) and get an answer. I'll post when I hear from him.
Cathy
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elmo01
Posts: 2221
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:56 am |
| cwagner47 wrote: | I have the same thing on my new Cingular 551. I called Cingular service and they didn't know. I stopped at the mall and asked 4 cell guys and they didn't know. At this point, I'm going to email my brother who works for Moto (but not in phones) and get an answer. I'll post when I hear from him.
Cathy |
the answer is already posted... the third post on this topic
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phillycheese22
Posts: 1 |
Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:58 pm |
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so does this mean the newer phones are better? I just replaced my old one and get this "E" thing too.
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elmo01
Posts: 2221
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:00 pm |
| phillycheese22 wrote: | | so does this mean the newer phones are better? I just replaced my old one and get this "E" thing too. |
that is correct... the E is for an edge connection
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fishcube
Posts: 11
Phone Model:
Motorola V551
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:27 pm |
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Elmo, they are referring to my question about roaming, not the Edge. Cathy did you hear back?
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mrbillyvee
Posts: 39
Phone Model:
ROKR E1
Service Provider:
cingular |
Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:35 pm |
| mobilepimp wrote: | | v551's with earlier software probably wont show this icon, this was a fix implemented in later models. |
mobilepimp can older v551 phones be upgraded to the newer edge service?
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TexasCSR
Posts: 327
Phone Model:
V600, V551, Nokia 6820
Service Provider:
AT&T/Cingular/T
mobile |
Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:35 am |
| mrbillyvee wrote: | | mobilepimp wrote: | | v551's with earlier software probably wont show this icon, this was a fix implemented in later models. |
mobilepimp can older v551 phones be upgraded to the newer edge service? |
I don't believe so. The best thing to do is post this question in the Moto Forum. You may be able to flash it. I honestly don't think it's possible.
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