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Scott in SoCal - 22 Apr 2008 05:38 GMT

I currently have a regular (post-paid) cell phone with AT&T. AT&T is
currently selling a RAZR "Go Phone" for $129.99. Is it "locked" into
being a prepaid phone in any way? In other words, is there anything to
stop me from buying this phone, taking out the prepaid SIM, popping in
my regular AT&T SIM from my old phone, and using the RAZR as a regular
cell phone? Any reason why I can't then pop the prepaid SIM into my
old phone and use that one as the "Go Phone?"

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SMS - 22 Apr 2008 12:38 GMT

> I currently have a regular (post-paid) cell phone with AT&T. AT&T is
> currently selling a RAZR "Go Phone" for $129.99. Is it "locked" into
> being a prepaid phone in any way?

Yes.

> In other words, is there anything to
> stop me from buying this phone, taking out the prepaid SIM, popping in
> my regular AT&T SIM from my old phone, and using the RAZR as a regular
> cell phone?

Yes.

> Any reason why I can't then pop the prepaid SIM into my
> old phone and use that one as the "Go Phone?"

That part may work.

If you're looking for a low-cost GSM phone you may be better off buying
a prepaid T-Mobile phone and having it unlocked. That's what I did. But
it was a lot more than $12.95.

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Mike S. - 23 Apr 2008 21:55 GMT

>I currently have a regular (post-paid) cell phone with AT&T. AT&T is
>currently selling a RAZR "Go Phone" for $129.99. Is it "locked" into
>being a prepaid phone in any way?

Provided AT&T works the same way that the former Cingular did, it is just
subsidy-locked to an AT&T SIM. I have personally used Gophone handsets on
postpaid accounts.

>In other words, is there anything to
>stop me from buying this phone, taking out the prepaid SIM, popping in
>my regular AT&T SIM from my old phone, and using the RAZR as a regular
>cell phone?

Provided that the phone was purchased from AT&T directly, or (if from a
store) scanned and paid for such that the IMEI# does not come up on a
"stolen" list. The former Cingular occasionally had been known to
blacklist mass-market prepaid phones that were not properly scanned and
inventoried.

>Any reason why I can't then pop the prepaid SIM into my
>old phone and use that one as the "Go Phone?"

That should work too.

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