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BugSpray
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orange
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:01 pm 
ok, today while i was in class, i was messing with my phone, and i opened my phone, and where it normally says t-mobile, it said cingular, so i started messing with settings, and i realized i could switch between t-mobile networks, and the two available cingular networks. i was wondering why is this happening (i'm not complaining tho) and will it charge my phone bill anyting extra for doing this?

thanks in advance
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midnite23
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t-mobile
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:02 pm 
ok, idk how that happened, but somehow i was logged in as that guy, but i never created that account, but anyways, that post was done by me, midnite

Samsung
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:08 pm 
You posting in a public place? lol anyways the reasont why that happens is that T-Mobile has a romaing agreement with Cingular in your area, therefore you can use both T-Mobile and Cingulars network without being charged and additional fees.
midnite23
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:37 pm 
ok, i'll us take this answer and run with it, jus wanted to make sure i wouldnt get any extra fees. but now i know i'll be texting in my periods where i cant get a tmobile signal. i jus wonder why i couldnt do this before

elmo01
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Bell Canada
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Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:55 am 
midnite23 wrote:
ok, i'll us take this answer and run with it, jus wanted to make sure i wouldnt get any extra fees. but now i know i'll be texting in my periods where i cant get a tmobile signal. i jus wonder why i couldnt do this before


your phone has a registering order... it will look for signal from your own carrier first...if none available it will take whatever it can get

Samsung
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Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:34 am 
Worst case scenario with another carrier is that you are going to get late billables, this is where you make phone calls during one cycle but your carrier doesnt get the information until you are in another cycle. This means that the minutes you used in a previous cycle get added to your current one.
midnite23
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Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:53 am 
well i'm only using the cingular network to text people in parts of my school where tmobile gets no signal, but if they add those to my next billing period, its ok, cuz i have unlimited text anyways

Samsung
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Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:33 pm 
Then there should be no additional charges.
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