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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / April 2004Old plan/phone and new GSM plan
I was hoping someone had a suggestion for me. My wife and I are on an older non-gsm plan. We want to move to a new GSM plan that is more expensive than the one we have now. My wife "qualifies" for a new free GSM compatible phone, but I do not becuase I got a new phone only a year ago. So, they are saying I will have to pay full price for a new phone (my old v60 is not GSM compatible). To cancel the contract I will have to pay $150. Do you think I am better off 1. buying a new phone at full price, 2. Canceling the contract, paying $150, and going to a different provider? or 3. Canceling the contract, paying the $150, and going back to cingular for a new plan and free (or cheap) phones? Jack > I was hoping someone had a suggestion for me. My wife and I are on an > older non-gsm plan. We want to move to a new GSM plan that is more [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jack If you could wait a little longer, probability is that Cingular will be offering free GSM phones to everyone on an old tdma plan--regardless of how new a phone they have--as an "incentive" to switch to the GSM plans. Let "them" come to you instead of you going to them. When--people originally said about 6 months after the gsm conversion was done. What are you "gaining" in switching to a new more-expensive plan now--besides phones with a next-to-useless camera built in? At least in DFW the new GSM stuff is still having some problems--noticable "echos" (sometimes so bad you have to hang up and call back) and random drops in signal strength.  SignatureJud Dallas TX USA The echo problem is not just in DFW, it is pretty much all the 850 mhz GSM conversion markets w/Cingular. That's why I cancelled my Cingular service and stayed w/ my Sprint PCS service. Also the SIM card fried itself and I wasn't going to pay the $25 for a new SIM card. Paid the $150 ETFee with 9 months left on my contract ($450). GSM is a joke, that's why WCDMA is already being planned for a GSM overlay in the near future. Chris > > I was hoping someone had a suggestion for me. My wife and I are on an > > older non-gsm plan. We want to move to a new GSM plan that is more [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > bad you have to hang up and call back) and random drops in signal > strength. > GSM is a joke, that's why WCDMA is > already being planned for a GSM overlay in the near future. Will WCDMA phones incorporate SIM cards? I agree with Jud. Why pay to 'upgragde' to a more expensive plan. Stay with the older, cheaper plan. > > I was hoping someone had a suggestion for me. My wife and I are on an > > older non-gsm plan. We want to move to a new GSM plan that is more [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > bad you have to hang up and call back) and random drops in signal > strength. > I agree with Jud. > > Why pay to 'upgragde' to a more expensive plan. Stay with the older, > cheaper plan. It depends on how you use the phone. If you upgrade to a more expensive nation plan, you could actually save a ton on roaming charges. That is, they drop to zero. :) -Dave > I was hoping someone had a suggestion for me. My wife and I are on an > older non-gsm plan. We want to move to a new GSM plan that is more [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jack How about number 4: Buy a brand new GSM phone off ebay for about 1/2 price of full retail (less, maybe). Then walk into the nearest cingular store with both old phones plus your new phone you got off ebay, and walk out with two brand new gsm phones on the Cingular Nation GSM plan. You might have to buy a sim card for both new phones, but those are cheap. Cingular told me they'd send me a sim card for free if I wanted to activate a phone I already own on Cingular. But that was a deal offered to me over the phone, it might not apply at a cingular retail store. I'd suggest you look for a Nokia 3595 or Motorola T720. Both of those are good, reliable and SHOULD be cheap on ebay. Try to get a brand new one that was actually branded for cingular . . . or make sure the phone you get is GSM, and unlocked. -Dave |
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